chap00-changelog.tex

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\chapter*{Change log}\label{chap:change-log}
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    \item \textbf{Version:} 0.0, \textbf{Date:} 04/12/2019, \textbf{Contributor:} Antoine Rondelet, \textbf{Description:} Creation of the document. Established initial table of content and started to populate sections with bullet lists to develop in further versions of the document.
    \item \textbf{Version:} 0.1, \textbf{Date:} 20/12/2019, \textbf{Contributor:} Antoine Rondelet, \textbf{Description:} Refactored the structure of the document. Finalized the table of content, wrote sections on notations and preliminaries, and introduced the content related to the malleability fix.
    \item \textbf{Version:} 0.2, \textbf{Date:} 24/02/2020, \textbf{Contributor:} Clearmatics Cryptography R\&D, \textbf{Description:}
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            \item \textbf{Date:} 26/02/2020, \textbf{Contributor:} Duncan Tebbs, \textbf{Description:} Wrote section on wallet implementation and side-channel attacks considerations.
            \item \textbf{Date:} 02/03/2020, \textbf{Contributor:} Giuseppe Giffone, \textbf{Description:} Changed Merkle tree hash function to MiMC compression function.
            \item \textbf{Date:} 04/03/2020, \textbf{Contributor:} Duncan Tebbs, Michal Zajac, \textbf{Description:} Added background on Groth16 SNARK and SNARK scheme instantiation in the protocol.
            \item \textbf{Date:} 04/03/2020, \textbf{Contributor:} Raphael Toledo, \textbf{Description:} Wrote section on the packing policy and corresponding attack.
            \item \textbf{Date:} 04/03/2020, \textbf{Contributor:} Duncan Tebbs, \textbf{Description:} Refactored the data structures preliminary section.
            \item \textbf{Date:} 24/03/2020, \textbf{Contributor:} Raphael Toledo, \textbf{Description:} Changed the PRF and commitment instantiation with Blake2s compression function.
            \item \textbf{Date:} 17/04/2020, \textbf{Contributor:} Giuseppe Giffone, \textbf{Description:} Added DHAES encryption scheme.
        \end{itemize}
    \item \textbf{Version:} 0.3, \textbf{Date:} 09/06/2020, \textbf{Contributor:} Antoine Rondelet, \textbf{Description:} Fixed various inconsistencies throughout the document (notational mistakes in document body and in proofs, latex macros, and typos).
    \item \textbf{Version:} 1.0, \textbf{Date:} 30/06/2020, \textbf{Contributor:} Antoine Rondelet, Duncan Tebbs, Michal Zajac, \textbf{Description:} Global review of the document: fixed inconsistencies in definitions and notations, corrected grammatical mistakes and typos, added examples, figures and merged sections 5 and 6 of Chapter 1 for clarity, added missing references.
    \item \textbf{Version:} 1.1, \textbf{Date:} 06/11/2020, \textbf{Contributor:} Duncan Tebbs, \textbf{Description:} Specification in terms of a generic curve, with constants provided for \BNCurve and \BLSCurve. Some clarification and grammar fixes.
    \item \textbf{Version:} 1.2, \textbf{Date:} 27/01/2021, \textbf{Contributor:} Antoine Rondelet, Michal Zajac, \textbf{Description:} Fix erroneous prime fields used in data types, added elliptic curve group notations, fixed erroneous Groth16 formulas and notation inconsistencies between group and field elements.
    \item \textbf{Version:} 1.3, \textbf{Date:} 08/02/2021, \textbf{Contributor:} Duncan Tebbs, \textbf{Description:} Explanatory remarks about hashing public zk-proof data to single primary input, and delegating proof verification to external protocols.
    \item \textbf{Version:} 1.4, \textbf{Date:} 16/04/2021, \textbf{Contributor:} Antoine Rondelet, \textbf{Description:} Added appendix about fuzzy message detection.
    \item \textbf{Version:} 1.5, \textbf{Date:} 19/04/2021, \textbf{Contributor:} Antoine Rondelet, Duncan Tebbs, Michal Zajac, \textbf{Description:} Added more context with regard to the security of MiMC in the different settings (round functions of different degrees, lower bounds on the number of rounds etc.). Special thanks to Lorenzo Grassi for very informative discussions.
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