no way to add two bivariates polynomials (esp w/ different max degrees)

[bennetyee]

oasis-core/secret-sharing/src/poly/bivariate.rs

Line 15 in 18da8bc

pub struct BivariatePolynomial<F: PrimeField> {

while we don't need to do proactive verifiable secret sharing by adding zero holed bivariate polynomials since we can do churp dimension switching and get the same effect, it will be useful to be able to add a zero holed bivariate polynomial to a bivariate used for churp, esp with the max degree(s) growing.

the rationale for wanting this ability is this: we would like to be able to optionally grow the reconstruction threshold (as well as the number of shareholders for availability) as the value of the secrets being protected grows. in the context of a blockchain system, this would correspond to something like the total value locked increasing over time as the usage increases.

[peternose]

Agree, adding add functionality will be needed in the future once we support changing the threshold. The current version doesn't do that, so I would postpone this to later.