Re: [Cfrg] Threshold signatures

Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com> Fri, 03 January 2020 00:26 UTC

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From: Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 19:26:34 -0500
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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Threshold signatures
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On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 4:42 PM Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 4:38 PM Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The big difference is that I want the threshold sigs to be plug
>> compatible with regular RFC8032.
>>
>
> That is the case for https://github.com/KZen-networks/multi-party-eddsa
>

I am not an academic, I have absolutely no interest in originality. What I
am interested in is whether a component works or not and how it fits into
the rest of the system.