Re: [Cfrg] Call for adoption: Threshold Signatures

On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 09:11:58PM +0000, isis agora lovecruft wrote:
> Nick Sullivan transcribed 2.9K bytes:
> > Dear CFRG participants,
> > 
> > After some active conversations on the mailing list, there seems to be
> > support for taking on work related to threshold signatures at the CFRG.
> > This email commences a 3-week call for adoption for the topic of "Threshold
> > Signatures" that will end on October 28th, 2020:
> > 
> > There are two drafts that have been submitted for consideration on this
> > topic:
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-komlo-frost/
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hallambaker-threshold-sigs/
> > 
> > Please give your views on the following questions:
> > a) should this topic be adopted by the CFRG as a work item, and if so
> > b) should one or both of these documents should be considered as a starting
> > point for this work
> > c) are you willing to help work on this item and/or review it
> > 
> > Please reply to this email (or in exceptional circumstances, you can email
> > CFRG chairs directly at cfrg-chairs@ietf.org)
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > Nick (for the chairs)
> 
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> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I would definitely like to see a standarisation of FROST move forward, since I
> already have two clients interested in using it, and I have a Rust
> implementation in progress here: https://github.com/isislovecruft/frost-dalek
> (If you grep for "[CFRG]" there's a few comments on things that I suspect might
> be useful to specify in a standard.)
> 
> To that end, I'm happy to help the authors with both working on the draft and
> review.

Multiple implementations already!  That's great!

I suppose I should just say for the record that as one of the authors of
FROST, I of course am also interested in seeing it move forward, and
would be involved in working on it.
-- 
Ian Goldberg
Canada Research Chair in Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Professor, Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo