Precompiled contracts for optimal ate pairing check on the elliptic curve alt_bn128

Status history

1. Draft6 Feb 2017
2. ⋯Finaldate not observed

Abstract

This EIP suggests to add precompiled contracts for a pairing function on a specific pairing-friendly elliptic curve. This can in turn be combined with EIP-196 to verify zkSNARKs in Ethereum smart contracts. The general benefit of zkSNARKs for Ethereum is that it will increase the privacy for users (because of the Zero-Knowledge property) and might also be a scalability solution (because of the…