constantine VS protect

Percival cache attacks on Hyperthreading.

I go over some examples here: https://github.com/mratsim/constantine/issues/358#issuecomme...

`when myCondition():` instead of `if myCondition:` is done at compile-time.

Alternatively you can use a `static:` code block to force compile time evaluation. Or tag a function {.compileTime.} or tag function inputs with `static` modifier.

It is possible to create a compiler or an assembler running fully in Nim macros as well:

- https://github.com/mratsim/constantine/blob/master/constanti... (all that file runs at compile-time)

You can also implement Continuation-Passing-Style transformation at compile-time:

At a glance this sounds like a re-discovery of addition chains and using them to construct Pippenger algorithm. But applied to matrices instead of group elements.

See: https://github.com/mratsim/constantine/issues/37

I usually explain extension fields as similar to complex numbers with regards to reals.

I've collected a lot of extension fields references while working on my own implementation: https://github.com/mratsim/constantine/tree/master/constanti...

The best likely being

- Arithmetic of Finite Fields

Regarding your first question, you don't need to attack the hard-drive, for non constant-time crypto you can read power consumption or electromagnetic traces when the secret key is used to reconstruct it: - https://github.com/mratsim/constantine/wiki/Constant-time-arithmetics

Unfortunate name collision with my constant-time pairing-based cryptography library :/.

https://github.com/mratsim/constantine

KZG for sure yes, I actually already started implementing them: https://github.com/mratsim/constantine/tree/c2d716b/research/kzg_poly_commit

I have a small write-up on various details of elliptic curve crypto implementation here: https://github.com/mratsim/constantine/tree/master/constantine/elliptic