Aztec Verifier Contract Test

This code have been moved to barretenberg/sol.

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This repository contains multiple verifier contracts and testing harnesses that are used by Noir, our Zero-Knowledge Programming Language.

The implementations maintain the same interface, regardless of the verifier flavour (Standard, Turbo, Ultra), this should enable upstream implementations to be "plug-and-play".

The verifier will follow an overall architecture below, consisting of 3 contracts/libraries. Namely, the verifier algorithm (stable across circuits), the verification key (circuit dependent) and then the "verifier instance", a base that reads from the verification key and uses the key's values in the verification algorithm. The main advantage of this design is that we can generate verification key's per circuit and plug them into a general verification algorithm.

The verification key is currently generated via Barretenberg, Aztec's backend for generating proofs.

Current implementations

Standard Plonk Verifier

A verifier for standard plonk, the version of plonk that is used to run the Aztec Connect rollup.

The contracts are in the src/standard directory.

UltraPlonk Verifier

The UltraPlonk Verifier follows the same structure as the Standard Plonk verifier, under the src/ultra directory.

Generating Verification Keys and Proofs

Run bootstrap.sh to clone git submodules, bootstrap barretenberg, download SRS and generate verification keys. The bootstrap will also install foundry to ./.foundry so you can use ./.foundry/bin/forge if you don't already have foundry installed.

Tests

Test are performed with a TestBase harness, it provides helpers for reading files and printing proofs. The tests also require proofs and verification keys, those are build as part of the bootstrap.sh.

How To Run the Tests?

To run all tests, run the following scripts at the root of the repo:

forge test --no-match-contract TestBase # add -(v, vv, vvv, vvvv) for verbosity of logs, no logs emitted as default

To run test for a specific Contract test,

forge test --match-contract <NAME_OF_CONTRACT> # e.g., StandardTest

To run a specific test

forge test --match-test <NAME_OF_TEST> # e.g., testValidProof

Example to run only testValidProof for the Standard verifier with logs:

forge test --match-contract StandardTest --match-test testValidProof -vvvv

Debugging in all assembly

Debugging from inside the assembly can be pretty inconvenient. The quickest way to get going is to add a custom error:

bytes4 internal constant ERR_S = 0xf7b44074;
error ERR(bytes32,bytes32,bytes32);

Where ERR_S is the selector (first 4 bytes of keccak256(function signature)).

To revert the contract, and print values, you can then do as

mstore(0x00, ERR_S) // put the selector in memory
mstore(0x04, val_1) // add first value after selector
mstore(0x24, val_2) // add second value after first
mstore(0x44, val_3) // add third value after second
revert(0x00, 0x64)  // revert with a message containing 0x64 bytes defined above

When running a test, you will then see the three values val_1, val_2, val_3 in the console.