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  • Upgrade the main workspace, CRISP, and the starter template to fhe.rs v0.4.1. The v0.4.1 patch changes crate metadata only. The separate RISC Zero guest remains pinned until its image and provenance can be rebuilt.
  • Apply the secure-8192 BFV parameters and λ=45. Regenerate Noir constants, bounds, parity matrices, and verifier configuration. Adapt witnesses and CRISP ballot circuits to non-centered plaintext values.
  • Raise protocol_version to 5 and change the circuit ID domain to interfold-bfv-v2 for both presets. Old clients must use the new configuration IDs for new requests.
  • Bind the NodeFold C3 test plaintext to its public key parameter instance. Correct the secure C7 CRT inverse and the config-check circuit bounds. Make the benchmark report reject failed gas extraction and stale integration summaries.

Validation

  • The insecure-512/minimum run used --multithread-jobs 2 --verbose. All 11 raw circuit benchmarks passed. A fresh two-job integration export completed in 165.10 s with matching tallies and successful EVM replay. Measured verifier gas: Π_DKG 3,125,145, Π_user 3,034,178, Π_dec 3,716,640. The machine-readable gas JSON records zero exit codes for all three extraction stages.
  • Built insecure-minimum and secure-small circuit sets and checked the DKG/decryption verifier VKs across all six supported preset/committee routes. The insecure-minimum VK check passed again after the v0.4.1 pin.
  • Checked the main, CRISP, and template Cargo workspaces on v0.4.1. Targeted BFV parameter, Rust and CRISP config-ID, NodeFold end-to-end proof, and contract tests pass. All 26 SDK tests pass.
  • Full pre-push hook passed on both commits: lint, license, committee, docs, address, invariant, and verifier checks.
  • The secure-8192/minimum run used --multithread-jobs 2 --verbose. All 12 selected raw entries, including the config check and C7, verified. The integration test completed in 627.79 s with tallies 15/15, 13/13, and 16/16. EVM replay succeeded; measured verifier gas: Π_DKG 3,125,230, Π_user 3,034,226, Π_dec 3,716,652. All three gas-extraction stages exited with code zero. See circuits/benchmarks/results_secure_minimum/report.md.
  • The e3-bfv-client unit suite passes after removing an unstable serialization assertion. The branch now includes the secure benchmark fix and results.
  • Rebuilt all six supported circuit artifact pairs and published the cache with source hash dddbfe9b327538d5. The DKG/decryption verifier checks pass for the rebuilt committee routes. The circuit-tooling suite passes all 10 tests, including generated-bound hash stability and supported-pair publication.

Rollout

Pause and drain active E3s before the protocol-version-5 cutover. Install matching circuit artifacts and verifier routes before new requests resume.

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  • New Features

    • Upgraded the cryptographic protocol to version 5, with new configuration identifiers for both supported parameter sets.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Updated encryption and ballot validation to align with the revised cryptographic parameters.
    • Improved handling of invalid cryptographic inputs and threshold errors.
  • Documentation

    • Added upgrade guidance. Before resuming requests, operators must drain active E3s and install matching circuit artifacts and verifier routes; clients must update their expected configuration IDs.

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The PR upgrades fhe.rs integrations and BFV presets. It changes encryption witness calculations and CRISP ballot checks, regenerates circuit constants, and moves protocol and crypto configuration identifiers to v2. It also updates benchmark results and report generation.

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BFV upgrade and protocol rollout

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dependency and BFV preset contracts
Cargo.toml, examples/CRISP/Cargo.toml, templates/default/Cargo.toml, crates/polynomial/Cargo.toml, examples/CRISP/crates/*/Cargo.toml, examples/CRISP/program/Cargo.toml, examples/CRISP/server/Cargo.toml, crates/fhe-params/src/constants.rs, packages/interfold-contracts/scripts/protocol/constants.ts, crates/fhe-params/src/builder.rs, agent/CONTEXT.md, agent/flow-trace/04_DKG_AND_COMPUTATION.md
The fhe.rs dependencies move from v0.2.2 to v0.4.1. Related crate versions and secure 8192 preset constants change. A test checks secure 8192 parameters and a smudging-bound inequality.
Rust FHE API and error handling migration
crates/polynomial/src/crt_polynomial.rs, crates/test-helpers/src/*, crates/trbfv/src/*, crates/zk-helpers/src/bin/compute_vk_hash.rs, crates/zk-helpers/src/circuits/dkg/*, crates/zk-helpers/src/circuits/threshold/*, crates/zk-helpers/src/math.rs, crates/zk-prover/tests/common/node_fold_witness.rs, examples/CRISP/crates/zk-inputs/src/lib.rs
Rust code adopts new_with_intermediates and try_encrypt_with_intermediates, and passes the added index argument to smudging-error generation. The changes also propagate configuration errors and use structured polynomial errors.
Non-centered encoding and witness bounds
circuits/lib/src/core/dkg/share_encryption.nr, circuits/lib/src/configs/insecure/*, circuits/lib/src/configs/secure/dkg.nr, circuits/bin/config/src/main.nr, crates/zk-helpers/src/circuits/dkg/share_encryption/computation.rs, crates/zk-helpers/src/circuits/threshold/user_data_encryption/computation.rs, examples/CRISP/circuits/bin/crisp/src/main.nr, examples/CRISP/circuits/bin/crisp_onchain/src/main.nr, examples/CRISP/circuits/lib/src/utils.nr, scripts/check-committee.sh
Scaled plaintext coefficients use non-centered residues. DKG and threshold bounds change, and tests check generated r1 witness coefficients. Both CRISP vote circuits validate against Q_MOD_T; the utility test checks non-centered ballot encoding.
Circuit configuration generation
circuits/lib/src/configs/committee/*/parity_secure.nr, scripts/build-circuits.ts, examples/CRISP/circuits/bin/fold/src/main.nr, examples/CRISP/circuits/bin/fold_onchain/src/main.nr, scripts/circuit-artifacts.ts, scripts/circuit-artifacts.test.ts, scripts/README.md
The build script adds sync-bounds, sync-preset, and sync-parity commands. Secure parity coefficients and fold key-hash constants change. Artifact copying targets supported preset and committee pairs, with a test covering legacy pairs.
Protocol and crypto configuration ID rollout
crates/config/protocol-release.toml, crates/evm-helpers/src/contracts.rs, crates/evm/src/interfold/events.rs, crates/indexer/src/indexer.rs, packages/interfold-contracts/contracts/lib/ActiveCryptoConfig.sol, packages/interfold-contracts/scripts/*, packages/interfold-contracts/tasks/interfold.ts, packages/interfold-contracts/test/*, packages/interfold-sdk/src/utils.ts, packages/interfold-sdk/tests/sdk.test.ts, examples/CRISP/server/src/server/data_availability.rs, examples/CRISP/packages/crisp-contracts/contracts/verifiers/*, agent/flow-trace/07_UPGRADES.md, agent/invariants/02_CRYPTO_CIRCUITS.md
The protocol version changes from 4 to 5, and the circuit domain changes from interfold-bfv-v1 to interfold-bfv-v2. Configuration IDs, verifier key data, proof fixtures, and expected ciphertext lengths change. A contract test checks rejection of a request using the previous insecure circuit version.

Benchmark result refresh

Layer / File(s) Summary
Benchmark runs and reporting
circuits/benchmarks/results_insecure_minimum/*, circuits/benchmarks/results_secure_minimum/*, circuits/benchmarks/scripts/benchmark_circuit.sh, circuits/benchmarks/scripts/generate_report.sh, circuits/benchmarks/scripts/run_benchmarks.sh
Benchmark reports and run metadata are refreshed. The insecure-minimum gas-results file records null or zero values and nonzero test exit codes. The scripts clear stale snapshots and restrict report metrics to successful run data.

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Benchmark comparisons remain misleading, and a normal artifact push can fail when the destination branch contains a legacy pair. Correct the report and artifact publication path before merging, or explicitly accept the replacement workaround.

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this requires a protocol version change since we changed the parameter set.

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Preserve the secure parameter-set migration while keeping main's sortition gap and proof-publication invariant. Use the current documentation paths for the address checker.
zahrajavar added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 29, 2026
`verify_user_data_encryption_bounds` re-derives the generated bounds independently of the Rust
generator, so the two have to move together. Replaces the `r1` / `r2` / `p1` / `p2` checks with
the two `r` bounds, deriving each from the reduced identity rather than the unreduced one — and
noting why ct0 takes the lifted `e0_bound` rather than its residue at `q_i`, which is the part
that would silently reject every honest witness if it regressed.

This is the check that caught the `k1_max` off-by-one in the preceding commit.

Pre-existing and untouched: `nargo execute` on bin/config still fails in `verify_e_sm_bound`,
which hardcodes `e_norm = 20` and `sk_norm = PARAMS_SEARCH_N = 10` while the Rust uses the
committee-derived values. Confirmed identical at 631fa55, before this work. `pnpm lint` only
compiles this circuit, which is the bar this commit clears; #1996 fixes the assertion.
zahrajavar added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 29, 2026
C7 took `u_global` and per-basis `crt_quotients` as witnesses and checked
`u_crt + r * q_l == u_global`, then decoded through `-Q^-1 * (t * u mod Q) mod t`.

It now derives `u` instead. Lagrange coefficients come from a hinted modular inverse proven
by `denominator * inverse == 1 (mod q_l)`, which replaces an in-circuit inversion; Garner
reconstruction then gives the unique `u` in `[0, Q)` from the residues. Decoding is the
standard rounded `round(t * u / Q)`, with `t` folding to zero, pinned by a quotient bound
and the canonical remainder interval.

Soundness. `u_global` and `crt_quotients` are gone, and with them the IF-012 quotient bound:
`u` is derived, so there is no quotient for a prover to choose and nothing to bound. Each
share is bounded to `[0, q_l)` directly, which the interpolation and the Garner step both
read — strictly stronger than the IF-013 checked opening it replaces, and it makes the plain
commitment injective again. Every division hint is proven by a bounded quotient plus a
canonical remainder, so a bad hint cannot satisfy both.

Generic in `L` and driven by four generated widths, so it runs on both presets and adapts to
a new parameter set. The hints need their inputs under 128 bits; the worst case is the
interpolation sum at `H * q^2`, which is 2^121 on the current secure moduli and 2^123 on
those in #1996. `garner_reconstruct` asserts the running product fits, so a parameter set
that broke this would fail loudly rather than mis-reduce.

112,591 -> 26,808 gates at secure-8192/minimum (-76.2%, -75.3% against main).
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The decode moved from `-Q^-1 * centered(t * u mod Q) mod t` to `round(t * u / Q)`, and a formula
change deserves more than the one sampled witness per preset it had.

Extracts it as `rounded_decode` so it can be exercised directly, and adds fifteen assertions at
`Q = 1001`, `t = 10`: both endpoints, the exact encodings `u = round(Q * m / t)`, four
transition pairs across the flip from `m` to `m + 1`, and the wrap at `u = 951` where the result
rounds to exactly `t` and folds to zero. Every expected value was derived independently rather
than read off the implementation.

Two findings behind this, both stronger than the earlier commit message claimed.

The old and new formulas are the *same function*, not merely equal on honest inputs: compared
exhaustively over every `u` in `[0, Q)` across 44 parameter pairs, covering odd and even `Q`,
`t` from 2 to 100, and `t | Q` both ways. Zero mismatches. On the real parameter sets — current
secure, #1996's, and insecure — the endpoints, exact encodings and every transition point agree.

And the new form is the one fhe.rs uses. Its threshold path scales by
`ScalingFactor::new(t, Q)`, and the RNS scaler is defined as
`round(numerator * input / denominator)`, so the circuit now mirrors the reference construction
instead of an algebraic rearrangement of it. The end-to-end runs already tested this from the
other direction: the witness generator takes its plaintext from fhe.rs and the circuit asserts
the decode matches it.

The wrap branch is load-bearing, not defensive: 4 of the boundary points on each real parameter
set round to exactly `t`.

Pure extraction — 26,808 gates unchanged, 160/160 tests.
zahrajavar added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 1, 2026
Groundwork for folding C3's `k0 * k1` term into the mod-q quotient. No
circuit change yet: this derives the constants, emits them, and has
bin/config re-derive them independently, so the arithmetic is pinned before
any Noir code depends on it.

The substitution is

  k1        = SCALE * m - T * z            (z is the rounding carry)
  k0 * T    = BETA * q - 1
  k0 * SCALE = ALPHA * q - SMALL_D
  => k0 * k1 = q * (ALPHA * m - BETA * z) - SMALL_D * m + z
  => ct0     = pk0 * u + e0 - SMALL_D * m + z + q * Q0

so the per-coefficient modular multiply and centring comparison in
compute_scaled_message are replaced by two scalar terms, and Q0 absorbs the
rest. The win needs SMALL_D small, which holds because every modulus sits
just above a power of two: DELTA = floor(prod(q)/T) is then close to
2^(bits(q) - bits(T)) * q, so k is that power of two and SMALL_D is only as
large as the moduli's gaps.

ScaledQuotient::derive returns available: false rather than approximating,
on four guards: DELTA < q, k not a power of two, SMALL_D <= 0, or either
numerator not dividing q exactly. insecure-512 has one DKG modulus, so
DELTA < q and it falls back -- the circuit will keep the direct k1 path
there, which is fine for a test-only parameter set.

Derived widths reproduce what feat/secure-circuit-optimizations hardcodes
for this parameter set: BIT_Q0 = 27, BIT_Q0_DIFF = 19, BIT_Q1 = 14, and
T = 2^57 + 25-bit gap. Reproducing hand-tuned constants from the identity's
terms is the evidence the derivation is the real one. The offsets now have a
reason too: 4097 = N * u / 2 + 1 is the negative excursion from the pk * u
product, and the difference carries twice that because both limbs
contribute one. #1996's parameters come out one bit tighter (26/18/13) and
also satisfy every guard, so this serves both production sets.

bin/config re-derives all of it. Verified by perturbing SMALL_D by one in a
worktree, which produces "SHARE_ENCRYPTION_SMALL_D mismatch" -- the check
runs rather than merely compiling. It sits in verify_dkg_bounds, ahead of
the long-standing PK_GENERATION_E_SM_BOUND failure, so it is reached.
BIT_Q0_DIFF is the one exception: it needs gap * msg at about 2^137, past
u128, so the honest-witness check has to cover that width instead.

Still unverified, and the gate on the circuit work: that a real honest
witness satisfies these widths. A too-tight BIT_Q0 is a completeness bug
that would only appear for particular messages.
zahrajavar added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 1, 2026
k1 is the message scaled by SCALE = Q mod t and centred modulo t. Writing
that reduction as a carry makes it affine:

  k1         = SCALE * m - t * z
  k0 * t     = BETA * q - 1
  k0 * SCALE = ALPHA * q - SMALL_D
  => ct0 = pk0 * u + e0 - SMALL_D * m + z + q * Q0,  Q0 = r + ALPHA * m - BETA * z

so the k0 * k1 term disappears into the quotient and k1 is never built.

Measured (bb gates, secure-8192/minimum): 2,744,690 -> 2,125,396, -619,294
(-22.6%). Against origin/main, which measures 3,475,203, that is -38.8%.
C3 runs about 1,512 times per DKG at the small committee -- one proof per
(recipient, modulus) per chain, both chains, every node -- so this is roughly
-936M gates per DKG, more than every other circuit on this branch combined.

Most of the win is transcript rather than arithmetic. The direct path pushes
all N coefficients of k1 into the sponge unpacked, one absorption each, and
replaces ct0_r at 55 bits with Q0 at 27. Dropping the per-coefficient modular
multiply and centring comparison is the smaller half.

Q0 is narrow because SMALL_D = k * q - floor(prod(q)/t) is small, which holds
because every modulus sits just above a power of two: floor(prod(q)/t)/q is
then close to 2^(bits(q) - bits(t)), so k is that power of two and SMALL_D is
only as large as the moduli's gaps. Widths come from the generator (43919f8)
and reproduce what feat/secure-circuit-optimizations hardcodes, 27/19/14;
#1996 is tighter at 26/18/13. insecure-512 has one DKG modulus, so no k works
and SCALED_QUOTIENT is generated false -- that preset keeps the direct path,
which is fine for a test-only parameter set. Gating on the generated flag
rather than on N == 8192 && L == 2 means a new parameter set is included or
excluded loudly, never handed wrong constants.

z is a witness, not an in-circuit hint. Computing it with
__compute_mod_reduction made nargo execute emit "bug: Brillig function call
isn't properly covered by a manual constraint", the same diagnostic C6 hit.
Supplying it and pinning it with the same two constraints -- a BIT_Z bound and
the [0, t) window that exactly one z satisfies -- removes the diagnostic and
matches how every other quotient here is handled.

Verified: nargo execute solves against a real secure-8192 witness with no bug
diagnostics, which also confirms an honest witness satisfies the derived
27/19/14 -- the completeness risk this change carried. The insecure fallback
solves too. bin/config re-derives the constants ahead of its long-standing
E_SM_BOUND failure, so that check is reached. Three new tests: the honest
scaled path, and a deflated and an inflated carry, both rejected. The scaled
test is the only one entering that branch; every pre-existing C3 test runs the
fallback, so without it the shipped path would be the untested one.
ctrlc03 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 2, 2026
`verify_user_data_encryption_bounds` re-derives the generated bounds independently of the Rust
generator, so the two have to move together. Replaces the `r1` / `r2` / `p1` / `p2` checks with
the two `r` bounds, deriving each from the reduced identity rather than the unreduced one — and
noting why ct0 takes the lifted `e0_bound` rather than its residue at `q_i`, which is the part
that would silently reject every honest witness if it regressed.

This is the check that caught the `k1_max` off-by-one in the preceding commit.

Pre-existing and untouched: `nargo execute` on bin/config still fails in `verify_e_sm_bound`,
which hardcodes `e_norm = 20` and `sk_norm = PARAMS_SEARCH_N = 10` while the Rust uses the
committee-derived values. Confirmed identical at 631fa55, before this work. `pnpm lint` only
compiles this circuit, which is the bar this commit clears; #1996 fixes the assertion.
ctrlc03 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 2, 2026
C7 took `u_global` and per-basis `crt_quotients` as witnesses and checked
`u_crt + r * q_l == u_global`, then decoded through `-Q^-1 * (t * u mod Q) mod t`.

It now derives `u` instead. Lagrange coefficients come from a hinted modular inverse proven
by `denominator * inverse == 1 (mod q_l)`, which replaces an in-circuit inversion; Garner
reconstruction then gives the unique `u` in `[0, Q)` from the residues. Decoding is the
standard rounded `round(t * u / Q)`, with `t` folding to zero, pinned by a quotient bound
and the canonical remainder interval.

Soundness. `u_global` and `crt_quotients` are gone, and with them the IF-012 quotient bound:
`u` is derived, so there is no quotient for a prover to choose and nothing to bound. Each
share is bounded to `[0, q_l)` directly, which the interpolation and the Garner step both
read — strictly stronger than the IF-013 checked opening it replaces, and it makes the plain
commitment injective again. Every division hint is proven by a bounded quotient plus a
canonical remainder, so a bad hint cannot satisfy both.

Generic in `L` and driven by four generated widths, so it runs on both presets and adapts to
a new parameter set. The hints need their inputs under 128 bits; the worst case is the
interpolation sum at `H * q^2`, which is 2^121 on the current secure moduli and 2^123 on
those in #1996. `garner_reconstruct` asserts the running product fits, so a parameter set
that broke this would fail loudly rather than mis-reduce.

112,591 -> 26,808 gates at secure-8192/minimum (-76.2%, -75.3% against main).
ctrlc03 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 2, 2026
The decode moved from `-Q^-1 * centered(t * u mod Q) mod t` to `round(t * u / Q)`, and a formula
change deserves more than the one sampled witness per preset it had.

Extracts it as `rounded_decode` so it can be exercised directly, and adds fifteen assertions at
`Q = 1001`, `t = 10`: both endpoints, the exact encodings `u = round(Q * m / t)`, four
transition pairs across the flip from `m` to `m + 1`, and the wrap at `u = 951` where the result
rounds to exactly `t` and folds to zero. Every expected value was derived independently rather
than read off the implementation.

Two findings behind this, both stronger than the earlier commit message claimed.

The old and new formulas are the *same function*, not merely equal on honest inputs: compared
exhaustively over every `u` in `[0, Q)` across 44 parameter pairs, covering odd and even `Q`,
`t` from 2 to 100, and `t | Q` both ways. Zero mismatches. On the real parameter sets — current
secure, #1996's, and insecure — the endpoints, exact encodings and every transition point agree.

And the new form is the one fhe.rs uses. Its threshold path scales by
`ScalingFactor::new(t, Q)`, and the RNS scaler is defined as
`round(numerator * input / denominator)`, so the circuit now mirrors the reference construction
instead of an algebraic rearrangement of it. The end-to-end runs already tested this from the
other direction: the witness generator takes its plaintext from fhe.rs and the circuit asserts
the decode matches it.

The wrap branch is load-bearing, not defensive: 4 of the boundary points on each real parameter
set round to exactly `t`.

Pure extraction — 26,808 gates unchanged, 160/160 tests.
ctrlc03 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 2, 2026
Groundwork for folding C3's `k0 * k1` term into the mod-q quotient. No
circuit change yet: this derives the constants, emits them, and has
bin/config re-derive them independently, so the arithmetic is pinned before
any Noir code depends on it.

The substitution is

  k1        = SCALE * m - T * z            (z is the rounding carry)
  k0 * T    = BETA * q - 1
  k0 * SCALE = ALPHA * q - SMALL_D
  => k0 * k1 = q * (ALPHA * m - BETA * z) - SMALL_D * m + z
  => ct0     = pk0 * u + e0 - SMALL_D * m + z + q * Q0

so the per-coefficient modular multiply and centring comparison in
compute_scaled_message are replaced by two scalar terms, and Q0 absorbs the
rest. The win needs SMALL_D small, which holds because every modulus sits
just above a power of two: DELTA = floor(prod(q)/T) is then close to
2^(bits(q) - bits(T)) * q, so k is that power of two and SMALL_D is only as
large as the moduli's gaps.

ScaledQuotient::derive returns available: false rather than approximating,
on four guards: DELTA < q, k not a power of two, SMALL_D <= 0, or either
numerator not dividing q exactly. insecure-512 has one DKG modulus, so
DELTA < q and it falls back -- the circuit will keep the direct k1 path
there, which is fine for a test-only parameter set.

Derived widths reproduce what feat/secure-circuit-optimizations hardcodes
for this parameter set: BIT_Q0 = 27, BIT_Q0_DIFF = 19, BIT_Q1 = 14, and
T = 2^57 + 25-bit gap. Reproducing hand-tuned constants from the identity's
terms is the evidence the derivation is the real one. The offsets now have a
reason too: 4097 = N * u / 2 + 1 is the negative excursion from the pk * u
product, and the difference carries twice that because both limbs
contribute one. #1996's parameters come out one bit tighter (26/18/13) and
also satisfy every guard, so this serves both production sets.

bin/config re-derives all of it. Verified by perturbing SMALL_D by one in a
worktree, which produces "SHARE_ENCRYPTION_SMALL_D mismatch" -- the check
runs rather than merely compiling. It sits in verify_dkg_bounds, ahead of
the long-standing PK_GENERATION_E_SM_BOUND failure, so it is reached.
BIT_Q0_DIFF is the one exception: it needs gap * msg at about 2^137, past
u128, so the honest-witness check has to cover that width instead.

Still unverified, and the gate on the circuit work: that a real honest
witness satisfies these widths. A too-tight BIT_Q0 is a completeness bug
that would only appear for particular messages.
ctrlc03 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 2, 2026
k1 is the message scaled by SCALE = Q mod t and centred modulo t. Writing
that reduction as a carry makes it affine:

  k1         = SCALE * m - t * z
  k0 * t     = BETA * q - 1
  k0 * SCALE = ALPHA * q - SMALL_D
  => ct0 = pk0 * u + e0 - SMALL_D * m + z + q * Q0,  Q0 = r + ALPHA * m - BETA * z

so the k0 * k1 term disappears into the quotient and k1 is never built.

Measured (bb gates, secure-8192/minimum): 2,744,690 -> 2,125,396, -619,294
(-22.6%). Against origin/main, which measures 3,475,203, that is -38.8%.
C3 runs about 1,512 times per DKG at the small committee -- one proof per
(recipient, modulus) per chain, both chains, every node -- so this is roughly
-936M gates per DKG, more than every other circuit on this branch combined.

Most of the win is transcript rather than arithmetic. The direct path pushes
all N coefficients of k1 into the sponge unpacked, one absorption each, and
replaces ct0_r at 55 bits with Q0 at 27. Dropping the per-coefficient modular
multiply and centring comparison is the smaller half.

Q0 is narrow because SMALL_D = k * q - floor(prod(q)/t) is small, which holds
because every modulus sits just above a power of two: floor(prod(q)/t)/q is
then close to 2^(bits(q) - bits(t)), so k is that power of two and SMALL_D is
only as large as the moduli's gaps. Widths come from the generator (43919f8)
and reproduce what feat/secure-circuit-optimizations hardcodes, 27/19/14;
#1996 is tighter at 26/18/13. insecure-512 has one DKG modulus, so no k works
and SCALED_QUOTIENT is generated false -- that preset keeps the direct path,
which is fine for a test-only parameter set. Gating on the generated flag
rather than on N == 8192 && L == 2 means a new parameter set is included or
excluded loudly, never handed wrong constants.

z is a witness, not an in-circuit hint. Computing it with
__compute_mod_reduction made nargo execute emit "bug: Brillig function call
isn't properly covered by a manual constraint", the same diagnostic C6 hit.
Supplying it and pinning it with the same two constraints -- a BIT_Z bound and
the [0, t) window that exactly one z satisfies -- removes the diagnostic and
matches how every other quotient here is handled.

Verified: nargo execute solves against a real secure-8192 witness with no bug
diagnostics, which also confirms an honest witness satisfies the derived
27/19/14 -- the completeness risk this change carried. The insecure fallback
solves too. bin/config re-derives the constants ahead of its long-standing
E_SM_BOUND failure, so that check is reached. Three new tests: the honest
scaled path, and a deflated and an inflated carry, both rejected. The scaled
test is the only one entering that branch; every pre-existing C3 test runs the
fallback, so without it the shipped path would be the untested one.
ctrlc03 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 3, 2026
`verify_user_data_encryption_bounds` re-derives the generated bounds independently of the Rust
generator, so the two have to move together. Replaces the `r1` / `r2` / `p1` / `p2` checks with
the two `r` bounds, deriving each from the reduced identity rather than the unreduced one — and
noting why ct0 takes the lifted `e0_bound` rather than its residue at `q_i`, which is the part
that would silently reject every honest witness if it regressed.

This is the check that caught the `k1_max` off-by-one in the preceding commit.

Pre-existing and untouched: `nargo execute` on bin/config still fails in `verify_e_sm_bound`,
which hardcodes `e_norm = 20` and `sk_norm = PARAMS_SEARCH_N = 10` while the Rust uses the
committee-derived values. Confirmed identical at 631fa55, before this work. `pnpm lint` only
compiles this circuit, which is the bar this commit clears; #1996 fixes the assertion.
ctrlc03 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 3, 2026
C7 took `u_global` and per-basis `crt_quotients` as witnesses and checked
`u_crt + r * q_l == u_global`, then decoded through `-Q^-1 * (t * u mod Q) mod t`.

It now derives `u` instead. Lagrange coefficients come from a hinted modular inverse proven
by `denominator * inverse == 1 (mod q_l)`, which replaces an in-circuit inversion; Garner
reconstruction then gives the unique `u` in `[0, Q)` from the residues. Decoding is the
standard rounded `round(t * u / Q)`, with `t` folding to zero, pinned by a quotient bound
and the canonical remainder interval.

Soundness. `u_global` and `crt_quotients` are gone, and with them the IF-012 quotient bound:
`u` is derived, so there is no quotient for a prover to choose and nothing to bound. Each
share is bounded to `[0, q_l)` directly, which the interpolation and the Garner step both
read — strictly stronger than the IF-013 checked opening it replaces, and it makes the plain
commitment injective again. Every division hint is proven by a bounded quotient plus a
canonical remainder, so a bad hint cannot satisfy both.

Generic in `L` and driven by four generated widths, so it runs on both presets and adapts to
a new parameter set. The hints need their inputs under 128 bits; the worst case is the
interpolation sum at `H * q^2`, which is 2^121 on the current secure moduli and 2^123 on
those in #1996. `garner_reconstruct` asserts the running product fits, so a parameter set
that broke this would fail loudly rather than mis-reduce.

112,591 -> 26,808 gates at secure-8192/minimum (-76.2%, -75.3% against main).
ctrlc03 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 3, 2026
The decode moved from `-Q^-1 * centered(t * u mod Q) mod t` to `round(t * u / Q)`, and a formula
change deserves more than the one sampled witness per preset it had.

Extracts it as `rounded_decode` so it can be exercised directly, and adds fifteen assertions at
`Q = 1001`, `t = 10`: both endpoints, the exact encodings `u = round(Q * m / t)`, four
transition pairs across the flip from `m` to `m + 1`, and the wrap at `u = 951` where the result
rounds to exactly `t` and folds to zero. Every expected value was derived independently rather
than read off the implementation.

Two findings behind this, both stronger than the earlier commit message claimed.

The old and new formulas are the *same function*, not merely equal on honest inputs: compared
exhaustively over every `u` in `[0, Q)` across 44 parameter pairs, covering odd and even `Q`,
`t` from 2 to 100, and `t | Q` both ways. Zero mismatches. On the real parameter sets — current
secure, #1996's, and insecure — the endpoints, exact encodings and every transition point agree.

And the new form is the one fhe.rs uses. Its threshold path scales by
`ScalingFactor::new(t, Q)`, and the RNS scaler is defined as
`round(numerator * input / denominator)`, so the circuit now mirrors the reference construction
instead of an algebraic rearrangement of it. The end-to-end runs already tested this from the
other direction: the witness generator takes its plaintext from fhe.rs and the circuit asserts
the decode matches it.

The wrap branch is load-bearing, not defensive: 4 of the boundary points on each real parameter
set round to exactly `t`.

Pure extraction — 26,808 gates unchanged, 160/160 tests.
ctrlc03 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 3, 2026
Groundwork for folding C3's `k0 * k1` term into the mod-q quotient. No
circuit change yet: this derives the constants, emits them, and has
bin/config re-derive them independently, so the arithmetic is pinned before
any Noir code depends on it.

The substitution is

  k1        = SCALE * m - T * z            (z is the rounding carry)
  k0 * T    = BETA * q - 1
  k0 * SCALE = ALPHA * q - SMALL_D
  => k0 * k1 = q * (ALPHA * m - BETA * z) - SMALL_D * m + z
  => ct0     = pk0 * u + e0 - SMALL_D * m + z + q * Q0

so the per-coefficient modular multiply and centring comparison in
compute_scaled_message are replaced by two scalar terms, and Q0 absorbs the
rest. The win needs SMALL_D small, which holds because every modulus sits
just above a power of two: DELTA = floor(prod(q)/T) is then close to
2^(bits(q) - bits(T)) * q, so k is that power of two and SMALL_D is only as
large as the moduli's gaps.

ScaledQuotient::derive returns available: false rather than approximating,
on four guards: DELTA < q, k not a power of two, SMALL_D <= 0, or either
numerator not dividing q exactly. insecure-512 has one DKG modulus, so
DELTA < q and it falls back -- the circuit will keep the direct k1 path
there, which is fine for a test-only parameter set.

Derived widths reproduce what feat/secure-circuit-optimizations hardcodes
for this parameter set: BIT_Q0 = 27, BIT_Q0_DIFF = 19, BIT_Q1 = 14, and
T = 2^57 + 25-bit gap. Reproducing hand-tuned constants from the identity's
terms is the evidence the derivation is the real one. The offsets now have a
reason too: 4097 = N * u / 2 + 1 is the negative excursion from the pk * u
product, and the difference carries twice that because both limbs
contribute one. #1996's parameters come out one bit tighter (26/18/13) and
also satisfy every guard, so this serves both production sets.

bin/config re-derives all of it. Verified by perturbing SMALL_D by one in a
worktree, which produces "SHARE_ENCRYPTION_SMALL_D mismatch" -- the check
runs rather than merely compiling. It sits in verify_dkg_bounds, ahead of
the long-standing PK_GENERATION_E_SM_BOUND failure, so it is reached.
BIT_Q0_DIFF is the one exception: it needs gap * msg at about 2^137, past
u128, so the honest-witness check has to cover that width instead.

Still unverified, and the gate on the circuit work: that a real honest
witness satisfies these widths. A too-tight BIT_Q0 is a completeness bug
that would only appear for particular messages.
ctrlc03 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 3, 2026
k1 is the message scaled by SCALE = Q mod t and centred modulo t. Writing
that reduction as a carry makes it affine:

  k1         = SCALE * m - t * z
  k0 * t     = BETA * q - 1
  k0 * SCALE = ALPHA * q - SMALL_D
  => ct0 = pk0 * u + e0 - SMALL_D * m + z + q * Q0,  Q0 = r + ALPHA * m - BETA * z

so the k0 * k1 term disappears into the quotient and k1 is never built.

Measured (bb gates, secure-8192/minimum): 2,744,690 -> 2,125,396, -619,294
(-22.6%). Against origin/main, which measures 3,475,203, that is -38.8%.
C3 runs about 1,512 times per DKG at the small committee -- one proof per
(recipient, modulus) per chain, both chains, every node -- so this is roughly
-936M gates per DKG, more than every other circuit on this branch combined.

Most of the win is transcript rather than arithmetic. The direct path pushes
all N coefficients of k1 into the sponge unpacked, one absorption each, and
replaces ct0_r at 55 bits with Q0 at 27. Dropping the per-coefficient modular
multiply and centring comparison is the smaller half.

Q0 is narrow because SMALL_D = k * q - floor(prod(q)/t) is small, which holds
because every modulus sits just above a power of two: floor(prod(q)/t)/q is
then close to 2^(bits(q) - bits(t)), so k is that power of two and SMALL_D is
only as large as the moduli's gaps. Widths come from the generator (43919f8)
and reproduce what feat/secure-circuit-optimizations hardcodes, 27/19/14;
#1996 is tighter at 26/18/13. insecure-512 has one DKG modulus, so no k works
and SCALED_QUOTIENT is generated false -- that preset keeps the direct path,
which is fine for a test-only parameter set. Gating on the generated flag
rather than on N == 8192 && L == 2 means a new parameter set is included or
excluded loudly, never handed wrong constants.

z is a witness, not an in-circuit hint. Computing it with
__compute_mod_reduction made nargo execute emit "bug: Brillig function call
isn't properly covered by a manual constraint", the same diagnostic C6 hit.
Supplying it and pinning it with the same two constraints -- a BIT_Z bound and
the [0, t) window that exactly one z satisfies -- removes the diagnostic and
matches how every other quotient here is handled.

Verified: nargo execute solves against a real secure-8192 witness with no bug
diagnostics, which also confirms an honest witness satisfies the derived
27/19/14 -- the completeness risk this change carried. The insecure fallback
solves too. bin/config re-derives the constants ahead of its long-standing
E_SM_BOUND failure, so that check is reached. Three new tests: the honest
scaled path, and a deflated and an inflated carry, both rejected. The scaled
test is the only one entering that branch; every pre-existing C3 test runs the
fallback, so without it the shipped path would be the untested one.

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