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ab_merkle_tree/
sparse.rs

1//! Sparse Merkle Tree and related data structures.
2//!
3//! Sparse Merkle Tree is essentially a huge Balanced Merkle Tree, where most of the leaves are
4//! empty. By "empty" here we mean `[0u8; 32]`. To optimize proofs and their verification, the
5//! hashing function is customized and returns `[0u8; 32]` when both left and right branch are
6//! `[0u8; 32]`, otherwise BLAKE3 hash is used like in a Balanced Merkle Tree.
7
8use crate::{OUT_LEN, hash_pair};
9use core::num::NonZeroU128;
10
11/// Number of elements in a proof for a tree with `BITS`
12pub const PROOF_ELEMENTS<const BITS: u8>: usize = usize::from(BITS);
13const STACK_SIZE<const BITS: u8>: usize = usize::from(BITS) + 1;
14
15/// Ensuring only supported `NUM_BITS` can be specified for [`SparseMerkleTree`].
16///
17/// This is essentially a workaround for the current Rust type system constraints that do not allow
18/// a nicer way to do the same thing at compile time.
19const ENSURE_SUPPORTED_BITS<const BITS: u8>: usize = {
20    assert!(
21        BITS <= 128,
22        "This Sparse Merkle Tree doesn't support more than 2^128 leaves"
23    );
24
25    assert!(
26        BITS != 0,
27        "This Sparse Merkle Tree must have more than one leaf"
28    );
29
30    0
31};
32
33/// Sparse Merkle Tree Leaf
34#[derive(Debug)]
35pub enum Leaf<'a> {
36    // TODO: Batch of leaves for efficiently, especially with SIMD?
37    /// Leaf contains a value
38    Occupied {
39        /// Leaf value
40        leaf: &'a [u8; OUT_LEN],
41    },
42    /// Leaf contains a value (owned)
43    OccupiedOwned {
44        /// Leaf value
45        leaf: [u8; OUT_LEN],
46    },
47    /// Leaf is empty
48    Empty {
49        /// Number of consecutive empty leaves
50        skip_count: NonZeroU128,
51    },
52}
53
54impl<'a> From<&'a [u8; OUT_LEN]> for Leaf<'a> {
55    #[inline(always)]
56    fn from(leaf: &'a [u8; OUT_LEN]) -> Self {
57        Self::Occupied { leaf }
58    }
59}
60
61// TODO: A version that can hold intermediate nodes in memory, efficiently update leaves, etc.
62/// Sparse Merkle Tree variant that has hash-sized leaves, with most leaves being empty
63/// (have value `[0u8; 32]`).
64///
65/// In contrast to a proper Balanced Merkle Tree, constant `BITS` here specifies the max number of
66/// leaves hypothetically possible in a tree (2^BITS, often intractable), rather than the number of
67/// non-empty leaves actually present.
68#[derive(Debug)]
69pub struct SparseMerkleTree<const BITS: u8>;
70
71// TODO: Optimize by implementing SIMD-accelerated hashing of multiple values:
72//  https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3/issues/478
73impl<const BITS: u8> SparseMerkleTree<BITS>
74where
75    [(); ENSURE_SUPPORTED_BITS::<BITS>]:,
76{
77    // TODO: Method that generates not only root, but also proof, like Unbalanced Merkle Tree
78    /// Compute Merkle Tree root.
79    ///
80    /// If provided iterator ends early, it means the rest of the leaves are empty.
81    ///
82    /// There must be no [`Leaf::Occupied`] for empty/unoccupied leaves or else they may result in
83    /// invalid root, [`Leaf::Empty`] must be used instead.
84    ///
85    /// Returns `None` if too many leaves were provided.
86    #[inline]
87    #[cfg_attr(feature = "no-panic", no_panic::no_panic)]
88    pub fn compute_root_only<'a, Iter>(leaves: Iter) -> Option<[u8; OUT_LEN]>
89    where
90        Iter: IntoIterator<Item = Leaf<'a>> + 'a,
91    {
92        // Stack of intermediate nodes per tree level
93        let mut stack = [[0u8; OUT_LEN]; _];
94        let mut processed_some = false;
95        let mut num_leaves = 0u128;
96
97        for leaf in leaves {
98            if u32::from(BITS) < u128::BITS {
99                // How many leaves were processed so far
100                if num_leaves == 2u128.pow(u32::from(BITS)) {
101                    return None;
102                }
103            } else {
104                // For `BITS == u128::BITS` `num_leaves` will wrap around back to zero right at the
105                // very end
106                if processed_some && num_leaves == 0 {
107                    return None;
108                }
109                processed_some = true;
110            }
111
112            let leaf = match leaf {
113                Leaf::Occupied { leaf } => *leaf,
114                Leaf::OccupiedOwned { leaf } => leaf,
115                Leaf::Empty { skip_count } => {
116                    num_leaves = Self::skip_leaves(
117                        &mut stack,
118                        &mut processed_some,
119                        num_leaves,
120                        skip_count.get(),
121                    )?;
122                    continue;
123                }
124            };
125
126            let mut current = leaf;
127
128            // Every bit set to `1` corresponds to an active Merkle Tree level
129            let lowest_active_levels = num_leaves.trailing_ones() as usize;
130            for item in stack.iter().take(lowest_active_levels) {
131                current = hash_pair(item, &current);
132            }
133
134            // Place the current hash at the first inactive level
135            // SAFETY: Number of lowest active levels corresponds to the number of inserted
136            // elements, which in turn is checked above to fit into 2^BITS, while `BITS`
137            // generic in turn ensured sufficient stack size
138            *unsafe { stack.get_unchecked_mut(lowest_active_levels) } = current;
139            // Wrapping is needed for `BITS == u128::BITS`, where number of leaves narrowly
140            // doesn't fit into `u128` itself
141            num_leaves = num_leaves.wrapping_add(1);
142        }
143
144        if u32::from(BITS) < u128::BITS {
145            Self::skip_leaves(
146                &mut stack,
147                &mut processed_some,
148                num_leaves,
149                2u128.pow(u32::from(BITS)) - num_leaves,
150            )?;
151        } else if processed_some && num_leaves != 0 {
152            // For `BITS == u128::BITS` `num_leaves` will wrap around back to zero right at the
153            // very end, so we reverse the mechanism here
154            Self::skip_leaves(
155                &mut stack,
156                &mut processed_some,
157                num_leaves,
158                0u128.wrapping_sub(num_leaves),
159            )?;
160        }
161
162        Some(stack[BITS as usize])
163    }
164
165    /// Returns updated number of leaves
166    #[inline]
167    #[cfg_attr(feature = "no-panic", no_panic::no_panic)]
168    fn skip_leaves(
169        stack: &mut [[u8; OUT_LEN]; STACK_SIZE::<BITS>],
170        processed_some: &mut bool,
171        mut num_leaves: u128,
172        mut skip_count: u128,
173    ) -> Option<u128> {
174        const ZERO: [u8; OUT_LEN] = [0; OUT_LEN];
175
176        if u32::from(BITS) < u128::BITS {
177            // How many leaves were processed so far
178            if num_leaves.checked_add(skip_count)? > 2u128.pow(u32::from(BITS)) {
179                return None;
180            }
181        } else {
182            // For `BITS == u128::BITS` `num_leaves` will wrap around back to zero right at the
183            // very end
184            let (overflow_amount, overflowed) = num_leaves.overflowing_add(skip_count);
185            if *processed_some && overflowed && overflow_amount > 0 {
186                return None;
187            }
188            *processed_some = true;
189        }
190
191        while skip_count > 0 {
192            // Find the largest aligned chunk to skip for the current state of the tree
193            let max_levels_to_skip = skip_count.ilog2().min(num_leaves.trailing_zeros());
194            let chunk_size = 1u128 << max_levels_to_skip;
195
196            let mut level = max_levels_to_skip;
197            let mut current = ZERO;
198            for item in stack.iter().skip(max_levels_to_skip as usize) {
199                // Check the active level for merging up the stack.
200                //
201                // `BITS == u128::BITS` condition is only added for better dead code elimination
202                // since that check is only relevant for 2^128 leaves case and nothing else.
203                if (u32::from(BITS) == u128::BITS && level == u128::BITS)
204                    || num_leaves & (1 << level) == 0
205                {
206                    // Level wasn't active before, stop here
207                    break;
208                }
209
210                // Hash together unless both are zero
211                if !(item == &ZERO && current == ZERO) {
212                    current = hash_pair(item, &current);
213                }
214
215                level += 1;
216            }
217            // SAFETY: Level is limited by the number of leaves, which in turn is checked above to
218            // fit into 2^BITS, while `BITS` generic in turn ensured sufficient stack size
219            *unsafe { stack.get_unchecked_mut(level as usize) } = current;
220
221            // Wrapping is needed for `BITS == u128::BITS`, where number of leaves narrowly
222            // doesn't fit into `u128` itself
223            num_leaves = num_leaves.wrapping_add(chunk_size);
224            skip_count -= chunk_size;
225        }
226
227        Some(num_leaves)
228    }
229
230    /// Verify previously generated proof.
231    ///
232    /// Leaf can either be leaf value for a leaf that is occupied or `[0; 32]` for a leaf that is
233    /// supposed to be empty.
234    #[inline]
235    #[cfg_attr(feature = "no-panic", no_panic::no_panic)]
236    pub fn verify(
237        root: &[u8; OUT_LEN],
238        proof: &[[u8; OUT_LEN]; PROOF_ELEMENTS::<BITS>],
239        leaf_index: u128,
240        leaf: [u8; OUT_LEN],
241    ) -> bool {
242        // For `BITS == u128::BITS` any index is valid by definition
243        if u32::from(BITS) < u128::BITS && leaf_index >= 2u128.pow(u32::from(BITS)) {
244            return false;
245        }
246
247        let mut computed_root = leaf;
248
249        let mut position = leaf_index;
250        for hash in proof {
251            computed_root = if position.is_multiple_of(2) {
252                hash_pair(&computed_root, hash)
253            } else {
254                hash_pair(hash, &computed_root)
255            };
256
257            position /= 2;
258        }
259
260        root == &computed_root
261    }
262}