Add corona/gpu package — the single, decomplecting point where corona
opts into the lattice library's per-SubRing GPU NTT dispatcher.
Architecture (decomplected).
The lattice library already owns ALL build-tag plumbing for GPU NTT:
ring.SetGPUDispatchers (subring_ops.go) is the canonical hook; the
lattice/gpu package installs it under `cgo && gpu` build tags and
provides a real CPU fallback under !cgo or !gpu. Output is byte-equal
to ring.SubRing.NTT by lattice's own contract.
corona/gpu adds the corona-side bridge: UseAccelerator() flips a
global flag, NewParams() across corona consults the flag via
MaybeRegister and binds each created Ring's SubRings into the lattice
GPU registry. Single source of truth for the opt-in; no build tags
inside corona.
Threshold gating (honest).
Single-poly Metal NTT at corona's production N=256 is roughly 4-6x
SLOWER than pure-Go ring.SubRing.NTT (measured: BenchmarkPulsarSign_
5of7 force-GPU 7.1s vs CPU 1.1s; 14of21 force-GPU 23.5s vs CPU 5.9s).
The GPU win exists only in BATCHED dispatch (many polynomials per
kernel launch), which requires future engine-layer plumbing of
lattice/gpu.MontgomeryNTTContext.Forward(data, batch>=4) bypassing
the per-poly r.NTT() pinch point.
Therefore UseAccelerator() picks defaultThreshold=1024 — above
corona's N=256 — so the SubRing dispatch is armed but does not fire
on single-poly NTT. The registry remains primed for any future batch
caller (e.g. FHE bootstraps in thresholdvm sharing this library).
UseAcceleratorForce() (threshold=1) is provided strictly for the
correctness gate: every NTT call routes through the GPU so the
byte-equality test in threshold/threshold_gpu_test.go exercises the
GPU path end-to-end. Production callers use UseAccelerator() instead.
Byte-equality.
TestThresholdSign_CPU_vs_GPU_ByteIdentical runs the full 2-round
Pulsar signing protocol with GPU dispatch off and forced-on (same
deterministic dealer randomness, same message) and asserts byte-equal
sig.C / sig.Z / sig.Delta. Passes under CGO_ENABLED=0, CGO_ENABLED=1,
and CGO_ENABLED=1 -tags gpu. Existing TestDKG2_GPU_ByteEqual coverage
extends across n=3,5,7,11,21 (production shape).
Wiring.
NewParams() in sign-bound packages — threshold, dkg2, dkg, reshare —
calls corona/gpu.MaybeRegister(r) for the main Q ring. RXi and RNu
are power-of-two moduli; the NTT path is not taken on them.
Tests.
Full corona test suite passes under both build modes:
- CGO_ENABLED=0 go test ./... => all green
- CGO_ENABLED=1 -tags gpu test => all green
Leftover from Corona's "Pulsar-R" lineage. Pulsar (M-LWE) and Corona
(R-LWE) are independent constructions with separate hardness assumptions,
so their cSHAKE personalisation strings must be distinct.
Changes (Go, non-luxcpp):
- hash tags: PULSAR-HC-v1 -> CORONA-HC-v1, etc. (HU, TRANSCRIPT, PRF, MAC, PAIRWISE)
- profile IDs: "Pulsar-SHA3" -> "Corona-SHA3", "Pulsar-BLAKE3" -> "Corona-BLAKE3"
- context strings: pulsar.dkg2.A.v1 -> corona.dkg2.A.v1, etc.
- env vars: PULSAR_RESHARE_KAT_PATH -> CORONA_RESHARE_KAT_PATH, etc.
- struct names: pulsarSHA3 -> coronaSHA3
- KAT derive roots: sign_e2e_pulsar -> sign_e2e_corona
What's preserved (different scope):
- luxcpp/crypto/pulsar/* path references in comments (separate repo,
out of scope; the C++ side will rename in its own commit)
- Cross-runtime KAT files on disk (will regenerate next CI run)
All 11 packages test green: dkg, dkg2, hash, keyera, networking,
primitives, reshare, sign, threshold, utils, wire.
The academic 2-round R-LWE threshold construction was renamed Corona
→ Nasua at the family taxonomy level. Update Corona's documentation
references to point at the new name. Corona itself imports nothing
from luxfi/nasua — the dependency line is on luxfi/lattice/v7 for the
ring/sampling primitives — these comment refs only name the conceptual
upstream for design provenance.
Repo forks from luxfi/pulsar (R-LWE production threshold for Lux
consensus) to luxfi/corona under the family rename. Same Ring-LWE
code, same hash family (Pulsar-SHA3 / Pulsar-BLAKE3 -- wire-format
customization tags stay stable per MED-2). Only the Go module path
and internal imports change.
Lux family alignment:
- Pulsar = M-LWE / FIPS 204 / NIST MPTC N1 (was luxfi/pulsar-m)
- Corona = R-LWE / NIST MPTC S1 (this repo)
- Corona = academic upstream + Lux DKG expansions
Whitespace-only struct-tag alignment changes. Closes the CI Lint gate
that was failing across multiple recent commits on otherwise-green
build+test runs.
primitives/hash.go: PRNGKey / GenerateMAC / GaussianHash / PRF / Hash /
LowNormHash all take HashSuite as first param. suite == nil resolves to
the production default Pulsar-SHA3 (cSHAKE256 / KMAC256 / TupleHash256
per FIPS 202 + NIST SP 800-185).
sign/sign.go: Party gains Suite field; NewParty defaults to
hash.Default(); NewPartyWithSuite for operator-explicit construction.
sign.Verify keeps its signature for callers and resolves the default
internally; the suite-explicit form is sign.VerifyWithSuite.
reshare/commit.go: suite-aware commit derivation aligned with the new
hash.HashSuite contract used by the rest of pulsar/reshare/dkg2/keyera.
Closes the gap where the HIP-0077 claim that Pulsar uses SHA-3
cSHAKE256/KMAC256/TupleHash256 in production was structurally false at
the Sign layer (only pulsar/reshare/, pulsar/dkg2/, pulsar/keyera/ were
consuming pulsar/hash/HashSuite previously). Pulsar-BLAKE3 retained as
legacy/non-normative only for cross-port byte checks.
go.mod: luxfi/math v1.3.0 -> v1.4.0 (consumes the codec for the new
hash-suite tag).
CHANGELOG.md added. sign_roundtrip_test.go pins the new contract.
Tests: primitives + sign + reshare PASS. Patch-bump.