WIP

Terminology

• commitment_to_field: This is converting a commitment to a scalar. Rename this to "commitment_to_scalar" to emphasise the fact that it is not the base field. (Even though the base field is not exposed)

• Hash of a node: node_commitment.commitment_to_field(). The fact that it does commitment_to_field is an implementation detail. It could do sha256 of all elements.

• Commitment to a node: commitment(node); Rename to node_commitment. Note, the fact that we use group elements could probably be abstracted. We only care about the fact that its a commitment to a node.

• trie root: commitment(trie.root_node); We define the trie root as the commitment to the root node. We could define it as the node hash, there is no particular safety reason to choose either.

Run tests

Example: python -m verkle.verkle_test

Cryptography Modules

(In order of what you should implement first)

• ECC : contains all of the Elliptic curve arithmetic needed

• Polynomial : contains all of the polynomial arithmetic needed for polynomials in lagrange basis

• CRS : contains the common reference string which will be used to create proofs

• IPA : Proof algorithm that allows you to create an opening proof for one polynomial in lagrange form

• Multiproof : Proof algorithm that allows you to reduce an opening proof for multiple polynomials into an opening proof for one polynomial. We then call IPA to create a proof of the one reduced polynomial.