* refactor: make circuit tests generic wrt curves

- Improve modularity by introducing generic `test_recursive_circuit_with` function in `src/circuit.rs`
- Refactor `test_recursive_circuit` to utilize the new function
- Implement type constraints for `test_recursive_circuit_with` function

* refactor: make bellperson tests generic in type of group

- Introduce `test_alloc_bit_with` function utilizing generic types
- Adapt existing `test_alloc_bit` function to use the new `test_alloc_bit_with` function with correct types

* refactor: make the nifs test generic in the type of group

* refactor: make the ivc tests generic in the type of curve

* refactor: simplify generics in tests

* make the keccak tests generic

* make the poseidon tests generic

* make the spartan tests generic

* add a cross-curve consistency check

* eliminate the unused instance in RecursiveSNARK

* chore: update to ff/group 0.13 and associated dependencies

Updates:
- zkcrypto/ff, zkcrypto/group to 0.13,
- bellperson to 0.25,
- pasta_curves to 0.5.1, and removes the fil_pasta_curves fork
- pasta-msm should no longer need a fork (WIP)

Adapts source in function, mostly for const usage and API updates.

* expose the portable feature of pasta-MSM

* update pointer to pasta-msm

* Clippy

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Co-authored-by: François Garillot <francois@garillot.net>

* a more optimal preprocessing SNARK

* update version

* cleanup; address clippy

* Ability to collect evaluation claims

* defer polynomial evaluation claims

* address cargo clippy

* spark-based commitments to R1CS matrices

* small fixes

* fix padding

* update version

* generalize the slice implementation

* bump the version

* typo fix

* Comment typos fix

* Update README.md

* Comment typo fix

* simplify transcript engine usage

* update version

* checkpoint

* simplify further

* checkpoint

* gens --> ck

* update benches

* address clippy

* cleanup

* update version

* pass only one multilinear polynomial to EE

* update version

* simplify trait requirements

* update version

make spartan generic over the evaluation engine

update version

disable Wasm CI check

* Clippy with Rust 1.67

* Clippy/Rustfmt with Rust 1.66.1

use a macro to remove redundant code

add a test case

* Bump commit.

* Bump commit.

* (WIP) Add serde support

* Minor fixes

* Use neptune const generics

* Use git patches

* Impl serde for CompressedSNARK

* Update dependencies, revert to typenum

* Formatting

* Update bellperson-nonnative patch

* Cleanup

* Remove bellperson-nonnative fork

* Switch back to fil_pasta_curves

* Update forked dependencies

* Cleanup

* Remove unnecessary patch

* Update to lurk-pasta-msm

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Co-authored-by: porcuquine <porcuquine@users.noreply.github.com>

* Add Wasm support

* Use SeedableRng for Wasm randomness

* Fix tests

* Formatting

* WASM target support

* fast multiexp for WASM

* add parallelisation for MSM

https://github.com/zcash/halo2/blob/main/halo2_proofs/src/arithmetic.rs

* update crate versions

* fix clippy issues

* cargo fmt

* make ecc gadgets defined over Group rather than PrimeField

* use curve parameters from Group trait

* optimize ECC ops

* update version

* optimize add constraints

* optimize double by rewriting a constraint involving an inverted element

* support for arbitrary arity for F

* revive MinRoot example

* revive tests

* revive ecdsa

* remove unused code

* use None instead of Some(1u32)

* revive benches

* fix clippy warning

* integrate with neptune's sponge

* fix clippy warning

* add checks to ensure at most one squeeze

* add checks to ensure at most one squeeze

* avoid creating commitments to zero vectors

* reduce the number of constraints in each iteration from 4 to 3

* rename methods for better clarity

* rename

* Bump version

use a default implementation for step circuit

* support multiple iterations of MinRoot per Nova step

* small edits to println

* fix declaration

* support non-determinism with small changes to the interface

* update benches to use the new API

* add an example that exercises non-deterministic advice at each step of recursion

* tiny rename

* Address clippy; update version

* cleanup RO usage inside the circuit: use traits

* Add a note

* rename types for clarity

* Add asserts for constraint count

* switch to Standard strength

* update version and README

* move tests to bellperson adapter and remove tests folder; make bellperson adapter private