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Re: [CFRG] [Cfrg] Call for adoption: Threshold Signatures

Richard Barnes <rlb@ipv.sx> Mon, 02 November 2020 22:49 UTC

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From: Richard Barnes <rlb@ipv.sx>
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2020 17:49:35 -0500
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Subject: Re: [CFRG] [Cfrg] Call for adoption: Threshold Signatures
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On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 5:20 PM isis agora lovecruft <
isis@patternsinthevoid.net> wrote:

> Christopher Wood transcribed 1.1K bytes:
> > On Thu, Oct 8, 2020, at 9:33 AM, Nick Sullivan wrote:
> >
>
> > Probably only one. The structure of draft-hallambaker-threshold-sigs as
> an
> > extension to RFC8032 is attractive, though I think draft-komlo-frost (and
> > the related paper) is generally a better starting point, especially given
> > its assessment of attacks on related schemes such as 2020/945. It also
> > seems to have plenty of backing implementations and reviews. If we can
> > specialize it to RFC8032, perhaps with Richard's work as the basis for
> > that change, then I prefer FROST.
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> What do you mean by specialising it to RHC8032?  Do you mean literally
> producing RFC8032 backwards compatible EdDSA signatures using the ed25519
> and ed448 groups?
>

I'm not Chris, but that's what I understood him to mean, and I agree with
Chris that it would be good to have such a specialization.

--Richard



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