Unstoppable Wallets: Chain-assisted Threshold ECDSA and its Applications

ePrint Report: Unstoppable Wallets: Chain-assisted Threshold ECDSA and its Applications

Guy Zyskind, Avishay Yanai, Alex "Sandy" Pentland

The security and usability of cryptocurrencies and other blockchain-based applications depend on the secure management of cryptographic keys.
However, current approaches for managing these keys often rely on third parties, trusted to be available at a minimum, and even serve as custodians in some solutions, creating single points of failure and limiting the ability of users to fully control their own assets.
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