I don't think that a solution which uses DKG is overkill, I think it
would be more secure.
The more all-or-nothing security provided by DKG based schemes seems
preferable to the sliding-scale-of-influence provided by coin flipping
ones.
Then again I don't know that much about coin flipping protocol
I'm forwarding a private email by Florian Dold which is related to
this discussion. I talked with Florian during CCC and we talked some
more over email. Reposting with his permission.
Thanks!
From: Florian Dold
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 20:45:15 +0100
To: George Kadianakis
>
> Hi!
>
> I'm afraid t
As it currently is this suffers from something like the Byzantine
general's problem.
Attacks may be performed based on the fact that participants don't
necessarily transition between states at the same moment.
Error handling must be carefully considered and the SYNC round made
more robust to compen
Hello.
I would like to suggest this as an alternative.
It's not complete, but the basic idea is there.
Filename: -
Title: VSS shared rng
Author: Kang
Created: 2013-12-03
Status: Draft, Needs-Research
1. Overview & Motivation
This protocol and document are works in progress.
A method of genera
Relative to what's in the draft it's an improvement with no obvious downside.
If you were going to do this it would probably be best to use a full
commitment order instead of only selecting the final committer. That
is, instead of having an n'th committer and n-1 chaotically ordered
committers you
30.11.2013 02:28, Nick Mathewson:
> [...]
Trimming to shorten the length.
> Filename: 225-strawman-shared-rand.txt
> Title: Strawman proposal: commit-and-reveal shared rng
> Author: Nick Mathewson
> Created: 2013-11-29
> Status: Draft
>
> 1. Introduction
>
> This is a strawman proposal: I don'
This used to be an appendix in my drafts for proposal 224, but I split
it into its own document since it's orthogonal to the rest of 224.
See section 1 for appropriate provisos and disclaimers. I'm writing
this as a proposal mainly so other researchers can write better
proposals for this kind of
