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Add eth.noir, an offline verifier for Noir UltraHonk proofs (poseidon2 and keccak/evm flavors) that talks to Barretenberg's msgpack C ABI through the pinned v5.2.0 release static library. - build.zig: -Dnoir (default false). Off, nothing changes: no download, no link, the noir tests are not collected and the default test count stays at 898. On, the matching libbb-external.a is fetched as a lazy, hash-pinned package dependency (arm64/amd64 macOS, amd64/arm64 Linux) and linked with libc++. A target with no release archive fails the step that needs the library, so informational invocations such as zig build --help still work. - src/noir.zig: init() installs the 192-byte verification CRS (the G1 generator plus the pinned G2 element) behind an atomic once-flag; verify() and verifyDiag() separate a verified=false verdict from inputs Barretenberg rejects before or during deserialization (error.ProofRejected, with the library's message), and the docs are explicit that both mean not verified; Settings.fromVerifierTarget mirrors bb --verifier_target for the flavors that work here; every bbapi call is serialized behind one mutex; responses are decoded against the pinned schema so drift is a Zig error. - IPA-accumulating rollup proofs are not supported and not offered: they are checked against a 32768-point Grumpkin CRS that init does not install. ipa_accumulation stays as a wire field, documented as unsupported, with a test pinning that no verifier target sets it. - src/noir/msgpack.zig: canonical msgpack subset encoder plus a decoder that is strict about family and bounds. - macOS: strong C11 aligned_alloc shim, compiled only with -Dnoir, because Zig's Mach-O linker binds the archive's weak hidden aligned_alloc to libSystem's strict implementation. - Tests: unit tests for the init guard, concurrent init, settings, embedded constants and the response decoder; msgpack unit tests; bb-produced vectors (hello circuit, bb 5.2.0, nargo 1.0.0-beta.25) covering both flavors plus tampered, short, wrong-input-value, wrong-input-count, undeserializable-VK, non-canonical and flavor-mismatch cases, concurrent verification across threads, and byte-for-byte request comparisons against reference requests. - CI: "Noir verify" job on ubuntu and macos running zig build test -Dnoir=true. - Docs: README section, src/crypto/barretenberg/VENDOR.md, vectors README, and the CONTRIBUTING dependency note and layer diagram.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds optional Noir UltraHonk verification through Barretenberg v5.2.0. The change includes MessagePack encoding, CRS initialization, verification APIs, platform-specific linking, interoperability vectors, unit tests, documentation, and Ubuntu/macOS CI coverage. ChangesNoir verification
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant Noir
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Caller->>Noir: verify proof and public inputs
Noir->>MessagePack: encode CircuitVerify request
MessagePack-->>Noir: request bytes
Noir->>Barretenberg: submit request
Barretenberg-->>Noir: response bytes
Noir->>MessagePack: decode response
MessagePack-->>Noir: result or diagnostic
Noir-->>Caller: verification result
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Concurrent Noir initialization may be slower on constrained hosts, but the issue is localized and straightforward to fix. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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Yield while waiting for CRS initialization.
std.atomic.spinLoopHint() does not yield the waiter to the scheduler. While the winner runs the synchronous bbapi call, concurrent waiters can consume CPU and increase initialization latency on low-core or oversubscribed supported targets. Zig 0.16.0 supports std.Thread.yield(), so use it with the existing fallback:
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What
Adds
eth.noir, an offline verifier for Noir UltraHonk proofs. It talks to Barretenberg's msgpack C ABI through the pinned v5.2.0 release static library, so eth.zig can check a Noir proof without shelling out tobb, without a network fetch, and without a trusted-setup file on disk.Both one-shot flavors are supported: poseidon2 (bb's default) and keccak (
--verifier_target evm).Opt-in, default build untouched
Everything sits behind
-Dnoir, off by default. With the flag off nothing is fetched, nothing is linked, and the noir tests are not collected:zig build teststays at 898/898, identical tomain, and a build with a freshZIG_GLOBAL_CACHE_DIRleaves zero entries in the package cache. With the flag on, the matchinglibbb-external.ais pulled as a lazy, hash-pinned package dependency (one archive per host, ~13-16 MB) and linked with libc++.Supported targets: aarch64-macos, x86_64-macos, x86_64-linux, aarch64-linux. Windows is out of scope (the allocator and free contract differ there). An unsupported target fails the build step that needs the library, with a message naming the supported triples.
Why this shape
Verification needs a CRS, but only degree 1 of it.
init()installs a 192-byte verification CRS built from two constants embedded in the source: the BN254 G1 generator and the pinned G2 element, both taken from upstreambn254_crs_data.hppand checked against upstream's own SHA-256 pin by a test. That is what makes this offline.bb verifyby contrast downloads 4 MB on a cold cache.IPA (
noir-rollup) proofs are deliberately not supported: they need a 32768-point Grumpkin CRS, which is 2 MB and cannot be an embedded constant without giving up the offline property.Settings.ipa_accumulationremains as a wire field but is documented as unsupported, and a test walks everyVerifierTargetvariant so a rollup mode cannot be reintroduced silently.Correctness notes
SrsInitSrsandCircuitVerifyrequests byte-for-byte against reference requests confirmed against the live library.trueis the only success.falsemeans Barretenberg answeredverified=false(wrong proof, wrong public-input value, wrong size, flavor mismatch).error.ProofRejectedmeans it rejected the inputs during deserialization (non-canonical field, point off the curve, public-input count disagreeing with the VK). Both mean not verified; the docs say so explicitly and warn against mapping the error to an internal fault.error.UnexpectedResponserather than a guess.macOS linker workaround
Barretenberg defines its own
aligned_allocas a weak hidden symbol. Zig's Mach-O linker binds the archive's references to libSystem's strict C11 implementation instead of to that definition, and libSystem returns NULL for the non-multiple-of-alignment sizes Barretenberg asks for, so the first call would dereference NULL. Apple'sldbinds it locally and works. A strong C11-conformingaligned_allocis compiled into macOS builds only under-Dnoir, with the reason in the file. A minimal reproducer is written up for filing upstream against Zig.Testing
zig build test -Dnoir=true: 938/938 (924 unit + 14 vector) on macOS arm64 and Linux aarch64.initand concurrentverifytests.Noir verifyon ubuntu-latest and macos-latest.Independent review of this branch ran six deliberate mutations against the encoder and constants; every one was caught by the byte-for-byte request tests or the vector tests.
Limitations
Proving, VK computation and Solidity verifier generation are not included. The CRS is first-writer-wins in the library, so adding proving later means changing
init, not adding a second initializer. x86_64-macos and aarch64-linux are pinned and hash-verified but validated out-of-band, since CI covers x86_64-linux and aarch64-macos.Vendor details, the update procedure and the IPA rationale are in
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