Do Not Trust in Numbers: Practical Distributed Cryptography With General Trust

ePrint Report: Do Not Trust in Numbers: Practical Distributed Cryptography With General Trust

Orestis Alpos, Christian Cachin

In distributed cryptography independent parties jointly perform some cryptographic task. In the last decade distributed cryptography has been receiving more attention than ever. Distributed systems power almost all applications, blockchains are becoming prominent, and, consequently, numerous practical and efficient distributed cryptographic primitives are being deployed.
The failure models of current distributed cryptographic systems, however, lack expressibility. Assumptions are only stated through numbers of …

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