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Updates on the FROST NIST Submission

January 26, 2026

Presenters

Chelsea Komlo - University of Waterloo, Near One (USA)

Description

"Preview Talk" by Team FROST @ MPTS 2026, in reply to the NIST Threshold Call

Abstract. In this talk, we will give an update on the upcoming FROST submission to the NIST Threshold Call. We will discuss the preparatory status of the submission, review choices we have made, and discuss what remains. We will review the FROST signature scheme and discuss its strengths relative to other threshold signature schemes. Finally, we will discuss the security of FROST, and give updates in terms of the adaptive security of FROST.

Joint work: Elizabeth Crites, Conrado Gouvea, Jack Grigg, Ian Goldberg, Jonathan Katz, Chelsea Komlo, Mary Maller, Simon Rastikian, Stefano Tessaro, Nikita Sorokovikov, Denis Varlakov, Chenzhi Zhu.

Suggested readings:

  • Preview Writeup: FROST: Flexible Round-Optimized Schnorr Threshold Signatures: A Threshold Scheme Interchangeable with EdDSA
  • On the adaptive security of FROST (ia.cr/2025/1061)

Presented at

Presented at MPTS 2026: NIST Workshop on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes

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            Created January 21, 2026, Updated January 23, 2026