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Presentation

Threshold Schnorr with Stateless Deterministic Signing

November 4, 2020

Presenters

Yashvanth Kondi - Northeastern University

Description

Abstract: Schnorr’s signature scheme permits an elegant threshold signing protocol due to its linear signing equation. However each new signature consumes fresh randomness, which can be a major source of issues in practice. In order to mitigate security issues due to bad randomness in deployments, EdDSA (which is a special case of Schnorr) is specified to derive its nonces as a function of the message and the secret key. Implementing this deterministic nonce derivation in a threshold fashion while only using standardized primitives (eg. SHA, AES) is challenging. In this work, we construct protocols that enable such stateless deterministic nonce derivation in a threshold setting, albeit by combining evaluations of standardized PRFs rather than thresholdizing a standardized PRF. While we do not realize a functionally equivalent threshold version of EdDSA, we demonstrate that it is practically feasible to achieve stateless deterministic nonce derivation using standardized primitives in threshold Schnorr.

Presented at

NIST Workshop on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes (MPTS) 2020. https://csrc.nist.gov/events/2020/mpts2020

Based on joint work with François Garillot, Payman Mohassel, and Valeria Nikolaenko.

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Security and Privacy: cryptography

Created May 04, 2021, Updated June 07, 2021