PEEPanEIP#129: RIP-7212: Precompile for secp256r1 Curve Support with Ulaş Erdoğan

Ethereum Cat Herders Podcast

RIP-7212 is a proposal to add precompiled contract that performs signature verifications in the “secp256r1” elliptic curve.

Resources:

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Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/...

EIP - https://github.com/ethereum/RIPs/blob...

Discussion - https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/eip-...

Other Resources: https://gist.github.com/ulerdogan/8e3...

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Topics covered

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0:43 - About the proposal of the day

1:46 - Meet Ulas

5:30 - Presentation

6:14 - What are Elliptic curves and why are they important to blockchain technology?

6:52 - Signatures Today

7:22 - Special Elliptic Curves

9:41 - secp256k1 in Ethereum

10:27 - Inside an Aquairum: EOA

11:40 - Connecting to the internet with secp256r1

13:00 - Account Abstraction & signature Abstraction

13:59 - Use Cases - Create a Key Pair

15:00 - ENS domains like DNS (Go Daddy)

16:00 - Onchain verifying

17:35 - Onchain verifying with Protocol changes

18:35 - Precompiled Contracts

19:14 - A new Precompiled Contract

21:50 - Story of a new EIP (From EIP to RIP)

25:00 -Birth of RIPs and Roll Calls

25:45 - Migrating to the First RIP

26:25 - Address selection EIP-7587

27:17 - L2 teams implemented RIP-7212

31:30 - Example - A simple RPC Call

32:45 - End of presentation

33:55 - The biggest challenge of the existing curve that 7212 wasted to address?

37:00 - Which is the most gas-efficient r1 or k1 curve?

38:08 - How does 7212 help connect with the internet protocol?

39:42 - Any challenge to move this proposal to Ethereum mainnet

41:35 - Relationship between EVM Max and 7212

42:00 - Any preparation needed to push it to the mainnet

44:32 - Describe your experience as an author

47:13: - How do you envision RIP standards