Fix pairing tests for null accumulated values #579
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The issue arising in some randomized samples of the pairing test was that the accumulated scalar was ending to be 0.
As we normalize the accumulated pairing computation by multiplying the running product by
pairing(-acc.P, Q)
, this was yielding invalid results forbn254
, as the infinity point is not a valid curve point and hence the pairing operation wasn't actually defined for-acc.P
.The issue only affected the updated test, the KERNEL implementation is sound as checking input validity, and is being tested expecially against these cases with
test_ecpairing_precompile_invalid_input
.closes #554