eth2-shuffle

Shuffling algorithm for ETH 2.0.

Implemented in four ways:

1. Shuffle elements in array
2. Shuffle individual element (get permuted index)
3. Un-shuffle (i.e. reverse of shuffle effect) elements in array
4. Un-shuffle individual element (get un-permuted index)

Implementation can be found in shuffle.go

Note: you can change the hash-function and number of rounds. Tests use SHA-256 (upcoming in ETH 2.0 spec) and 90 rounds (already a constant).

Tests

Tests can be found in shuffle_test.go.

There are N parallel test cases, generated by code as defined in the spec. Generation code can be found here: spec/shuffle_test_gen.py. Each of these cases as a sub-test for each of the four shuffle-functions mentioned earlier.

Benchmarks

These benchmarks are ran on a dev-laptop, nothing special. The primary goal of these benchmarks is to compare per-index shuffling and complete shuffling, not to make it faster than XYZ. Feel free to run them on your own hardware to compare with your implementations.

With -test.benchtime=10s:

goos: linux
goarch: amd64
pkg: eth2-shuffle

BenchmarkPermuteIndex/PermuteIndex_4000000-8         	  300000	     49013 ns/op
BenchmarkPermuteIndex/PermuteIndex_40000-8           	  300000	     48936 ns/op
BenchmarkPermuteIndex/PermuteIndex_400-8             	  300000	     48709 ns/op
BenchmarkIndexComparison/Indexwise_ShuffleList_40000-8         	      10	1947872791 ns/op
BenchmarkIndexComparison/Indexwise_ShuffleList_400-8           	    1000	  19435826 ns/op
BenchmarkShuffleList/ShuffleList_4000000-8                     	      10	1253702761 ns/op
BenchmarkShuffleList/ShuffleList_40000-8                       	    1000	  12152166 ns/op
BenchmarkShuffleList/ShuffleList_400-8                         	  100000	    191813 ns/op

PermuteIndex_X

Benchmark shuffling of a single item, in a virtual context of X items, which are not being shuffled. Not that the size X of the list does not matter much at all, it's really just bottlenecked by the performance of shuffling a single index.

Indexwise_ShuffleList_X

Benchmark shuffling of X items, but each of them individually using PermuteIndex. Note that there's no 4,000,000 case, it's too inefficient. Also note that shuffling 40,000 this way, is slower than shuffling a list of 100x the size, the efficient way using ShuffleList.

ShuffleList_X

Benchmark shuffling of a list of X items. (The efficient way, i.e. all simultaneously)

Contributing

Contributions welcome, please keep the implementation in-line with the ETH 2.0 spec.

License

MIT, see license file.