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Currently we use fresh in the .pir document to instruct the evaluator to use the expression inside the fresh command to properly evaluate the witness during the proving process, meaning the .pir document contains both circuit specification and evaluation instructions. Ideally, instructions for evaluation would be completely separate from circuit specification.
A few reasons for this:
Separation of concerns is usually a good idea.
Evaluation/proving can be done outside of vamp-ir completely. For instance a front-end language targeting vamp-ir may want to handle this step, or even the backend proving library, and we should encourage this by default.
The fresh command causes confusion, because the expression contained inside fresh does not add any constraints at all. If the user does not know this they can easily write under-constrained circuits with major exploits. It is best to hide this footgun as much as possible, or at least separate it from the constraints to better indicate that it is conceptually different.
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Currently we use
fresh
in the.pir
document to instruct the evaluator to use the expression inside thefresh
command to properly evaluate the witness during the proving process, meaning the.pir
document contains both circuit specification and evaluation instructions. Ideally, instructions for evaluation would be completely separate from circuit specification.A few reasons for this:
fresh
command causes confusion, because the expression contained insidefresh
does not add any constraints at all. If the user does not know this they can easily write under-constrained circuits with major exploits. It is best to hide this footgun as much as possible, or at least separate it from the constraints to better indicate that it is conceptually different.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: