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Re: [Cfrg] Call for adoption: Threshold Signatures

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Thu, 08 October 2020 16:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Call for adoption: Threshold Signatures
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Any work the CFRG does on describing threshold signatures should 
probably also incorporate work being done elsewhere. For example, US 
NIST has a major work item on standardizing such methods:
    https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/nistir/8214a/final

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