However they can be implemented more efficiently with AVX512 or AVX512IFMA
They can’t
If you have an implementation with AVX512 or AVX512IFMA feel free to send it over, I will benchmark it against my library, or you can run the benchmark yourself:
# Performance
High-performance is a sought out property.
Note that security and side-channel resistance takes priority over performance.
New applications of elliptic curve cryptography like zero-knowledge proofs or
proof-of-stake based blockchain protocols are bottlenecked by cryptography.
## In blockchain
Ethereum 2 clients spent or use to spend anywhere between 30% to 99% of their processing time verifying the signatures of block validators on R&D testnets
Assuming we want nodes to handle a thousand peers, if a cryptographic pairing takes 1ms, that represents 1s of cryptography per block to sign with a target
block frequency of 1 every 6 seconds.
## In zero-knowledge proofs
According to https://medium.com/loopring-protocol/zksnark-prover-optimizations-3e9a3e5578c0
a 16-core CPU can prove 20 transfers/second or 10 transactions/second.
The previous implementation was 15x slower and one of the key optimizations
was changing the elliptic curve cryptography backend.
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