Feb. 15, 2023, 9 a.m. |

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ePrint Report: tlock: Practical Timelock Encryption from Threshold BLS

Nicolas Gailly, Kelsey Melissaris, Yolan Romailler


We present a practical construction and implementation of timelock encryption, in which a ciphertext is guaranteed to be decryptable only after some specified time has passed. We employ an existing threshold network, the League of Entropy, implementing threshold BLS [BLS01, B03] in the context of Boneh and Franklin's identity-based encryption (IBE) [BF01]. At present this threshold network broadcasts BLS signatures over each round number, equivalent …

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