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Multi-Party Threshold Cryptography MPTC

Presentations

Title / Presenter Type Date
ZK for Legacy Schemes
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/29/2026
Ligetron: Design and Deployment of ZK Applications made Easy
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/29/2026
SmallWood: Hash-Based Zero-Knowledge Arguments for Relatively Small Instances
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/29/2026
Schmivitz: VOLEitH Based ZK Gadgets for Threshold Cryptography
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/29/2026
Black-Box Threshold Signing of Hash-Based Signatures is Impossible
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/29/2026
Building Giant Multi-Party Threshold Cryptosystems with Lightweight Cryptography
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/29/2026
PiVer: Π Verifiable Secret Sharing Framework
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/29/2026
Improved Distributed RSA Key Generation Using the Miller-Rabin Test
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/29/2026
Vinaigrette: An Optimized Framework for Threshold UOV and MAYO Signatures
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/29/2026
LEAST: Linear Equivalence Action Threshold Signature
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/29/2026
PRISM: Compact Threshold Signatures from Pushforwards of Large-Degree Isogenies
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/29/2026
Threshold Schemes from (Isogeny-Based) Group Actions
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/29/2026
Mithril: Efficient Threshold ML-DSA from Secret Sharing with Short Shares
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/28/2026
Quorus: Scalable Threshold ML-DSA from MPC
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/28/2026
Amber: Lattice-Based Threshold KEM from the BCHK+ Transform
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/28/2026
Lattice-based Threshold Blind Signatures
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/28/2026
Hermine: An Efficient Raccoon-Style Non-Interactive Threshold Signature with Advanced Properties
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/28/2026
Tanuki: Two-round Threshold Signatures from Lattices
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/28/2026
The NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Project
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/28/2026
Haystack: Threshold and Distributed Stateful Hash-Based Signatures
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/28/2026
Symphony: Threshold Evaluation of Symmetric Primitives (AES, SHA2, SHA3, G-/C-/H-/KMAC)
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/28/2026
Towards an Efficient Multi-Party Threshold Ascon
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/28/2026
What's New in the MiniMPC Submission
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/28/2026
MiniMPC: Threshold Schemes for (and from) MiniCrypt
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/28/2026
Advances in NIST Symmetric-Key Standards: Ascon, Accordion, and Wide-AES
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/28/2026
PANTHERIA: Threshold FHE for RLWE-Based Cryptosystems
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/27/2026
Threshold FHE from CKKS and Applications
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/27/2026
TFHE (FHE), ZHEnith (ZK) and Nexus (MPC)
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/27/2026
Validating Floating Point Implementations
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/27/2026
NIST Update on Cryptographic Algorithm Validation
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/27/2026
SplitKey: Two-Party Signing and Decryption with Extra Features
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/27/2026
(Red)ETA: Refreshable Extensible DLOG Enhanced Threshold Algorithms
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/27/2026
TECLA and THE CLASH: Two Party and Threshold ECDSA Signature from Class Group Cryptography
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/27/2026
Fireblocks-3MI Plan for NIST Threshold ECDSA
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/27/2026
Two-party ECDSA Signing at Constant Communication Overhead
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/27/2026
Panel on Security of Threshold ECDLP-based Signatures
Presented at:

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

Panel 01/26/2026
Defining Unforgeability for Threshold Signatures
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/26/2026
Silent Threshold Cryptography from Pairings
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/26/2026
Sparkle Revisited: Proving Tight Adaptive Security of a Simple Schnorr Threshold Scheme
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/26/2026
tBLS: Threshold BLS Signature Scheme
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/26/2026
Mask-FROST: Adaptively Secure 2-round Threshold Schnorr Signatures in the Algebraic Group Model
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/26/2026
Gargos: Threshold Schnorr Signature Scheme
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/26/2026
Fireblocks-3MI Plan for NIST Threshold Schnorr/EdDSA
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/26/2026
On the Adaptive Security of Threshold Schnorr Signatures: New Frontiers
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/26/2026
Updates on the FROST NIST Submission
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/26/2026
Introduction to MPTS 2026 and the NIST Threshold Call
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/26/2026
NIST-CSD Welcoming Remarks to MPTS 2026
Presented at:

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

Presentation 01/26/2026
Updates on the NIST Threshold Call
Presented at:

HES8: 8th HomomorphicEncryption.org Standards Meeting

Presentation 03/23/2025
NIST Projects on Threshold and Privacy-Enhancing Crypto: Opportunities for Post-Quantum Cryptography
Luís T. A. N. Brandão - Contractor FGR - NIST/Strativia
Presented at:

IHP-PQAC Workshop 2 (Emerging topics in design and cryptanalysis of post-quantum schemes) @ Paris (France), November 04–08, 2024

Presentation 11/07/2024
Poster: The NIST Threshold Call
Luís T. A. N. Brandão - NIST/Strativia
Presented at:
NIST ITL Science Day 2023 @ NIST Gaithersburg, USA (November 09, 2023)
Presentation 11/08/2023
MPTS 2023 Closing Remarks
Luís T. A. N. Brandão - NIST/Strativia
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Closing Remarks 09/28/2023
Building Threshold Cryptosystems over a SMR/Blockchain Channel
Aniket Kate - Purdue University / Supra Research
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/28/2023
Limitations of Threshold Secret Sharing and Derived MPC Applications
Wyatt Howe - University of California, Los Angeles (USA)
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/28/2023
Verifiable Oblivious PRF
Armando Faz Hernandez - Cloudflare @ USA
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/28/2023
AONT: an essential gadget for Multi-Party Threshold Cryptography
Gilles Seghaier - Astran
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/28/2023
Building blocks for Threshold FHE
Andreea Alexandru - Duality Technologies, Inc. and OpenFHE, USA
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/28/2023
Feedback about the NIST Threshold Call/Process
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/28/2023
Vector Oblivious Linear Evaluation, PCGs and Correlated Randomness
Peter Scholl - Aarhus University
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/28/2023
Garbled Circuit Lookup Tables
David Heath - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/28/2023
Stacked Garbling
Vladimir Kolesnikov - Georgia Tech
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/28/2023
Gadgets for Threshold AES: Correlation Robust Hash and Authenticated Garbling
Hongrui Cui - Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Chenkai Weng - Northwestern University
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/28/2023
Brief notes on Gadgets and Modularity in the NIST Threshold Call
Luís T. A. N. Brandão - NIST/Strativia
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/28/2023
NIST Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program
Chris Celi - NIST
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/27/2023
Next Steps in NIST Lightweight Cryptography Standardization
Meltem Sönmez Turan - NIST
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/27/2023
Overview of NIST PQC Standardization (additional call for signatures)
Maxime Bros - NIST
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/27/2023
And then there were four: the first NIST PQC standards
Dustin Moody - NIST
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/27/2023
Sometimes You Can’t Distribute Random-Oracle-Based Proofs
Jack Doerner - Technion (Israel)
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/27/2023
Practical key-extraction attacks in leading MPC wallets
Nikolaos Makriyannis - Fireblocks
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/27/2023
Requirements for Threshold TLS
Armando Faz Hernandez - Cloudflare @ USA
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/27/2023
A Bird’s Eye View on Multi-Authority Attribute-Based Encryption
Marloes Venema - University of Wuppertal
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/27/2023
Ligetron: WASM as an Intermediate Representation and easy tooling for zkSNARKs
Muthu Venkitasubramaniam - Georgetown University; Ligero Inc.
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/27/2023
Standards for Zero-Knowledge Proofs and their Relevance to the NIST Threshold Call
Mary Maller - Ethereum Foundation and PQShield
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/27/2023
A note about Authenticated Transciphering: decrypting AES under Homomorphic Encryption using CKKS
Nir Drucker - IBM Research, Israel
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/27/2023
FHE-Related Comments on NIST First Call for Multi-Party Threshold Schemes
Yuriy Polyakov - Duality Technologies
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/27/2023
Brief notes on PEC (FHE+ZKP+ABE...) in the NIST Threshold Call
Luís T. A. N. Brandão - NIST/Strativia
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/27/2023
Exploring the power of threshold BLS
Pratyay Mukherjee - Supra Research
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/26/2023
Standardizing Protocols for Threshold ECDSA
Jonathan Katz - Dfns
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/26/2023
A Threshold ECDSA Scheme Submission
abhi shelat - Northeastern
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/26/2023
Threshold EdDSA Submissions of FROST and (maybe) Sparkle
Chelsea Komlo - University of Waterloo; Zcash Foundation; Dfns
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/26/2023
Distributed Key Generation in the Discrete-Logarithm Setting
Jonathan Katz - Dfns
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/26/2023
Thresholding symmetric-key primitives based on general-purpose actively secure MPC
Xiao Wang - Northwestern University
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/26/2023
Secure Multiparty Computation and Applications
Steve Lu - Stealth Software Technologies, USA
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/26/2023
Threshold Cryptography in MP-SPDZ
Marcel Keller - CSIRO’s Data61
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/26/2023
Diversity and tradeoffs in MPC standardization
Yehuda Lindell - Coinbase
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/26/2023
Introduction to MPTS 2023
Luís T. A. N. Brandão - NIST/Strativia
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Presentation 09/26/2023
MPTS 2023 Welcoming Remarks
Luís T. A. N. Brandão - NIST/Strativia
Jon Boyens - NIST/CSD
Presented at:

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Opening Remarks 09/26/2023
NIST Call for Multi-Party Threshold Schemes: Brief Notes at ICMC 2023
Lily Chen - NIST
Presented at:
Oral presentation by Lily Chen at ICMC 2023 (International Cryptographic Module Conference 2023) @ Ottawa, Canada (2023-Sep-22). Slides authored by Luís Brandão.
Presentation 09/22/2023
On devising recommendations for multi-party threshold schemes
Luís T. A. N. Brandão - NIST/Strativia
Presented at:
Decompute 2023 (The Conference on Decentralized Security with Multi Party Computation), 202-September-12 @ Singapore
Presentation 09/12/2023
Getting Ready for the NIST Threshold Call
Luís T. A. N. Brandão - NIST/Strativia
Presented at:
Crypto 2023 Rump Session @ Santa Barbara (California, USA), 2023-August-21
Presentation 08/22/2023
Overview, Feedback and Opportunities re the NIST Call for Multi-Party Threshold Cryptography
Luís T. A. N. Brandão - NIST/Strativia
Presented at:
ZCon4, 2023-August-01 @ Barcelona (Spain)
Presentation 08/01/2023
NIST First Call for Multi-Party Threshold Schemes: Notes presented at the TPMPC 2023 Workshop
Luís T. A. N. Brandão - NIST/Strativia
Presented at:

Theory and Practice of Multi-Party Computation (TPMPC) 2023

2023-June-09 @ Aarhus (Denmark)

Presentation 06/09/2023
Tackling advanced cryptography … toward standards?
Luís T. A. N. Brandão - NIST/Strativia
Presented at:

Invited talk presented on 2023-April-22, in Lyon (France), at the joint session between SSR 2023 & STAP'23:

  • SSR: Security Standardisation Research Conference
  • STAP: Symmetric Techniques for Advanced Protocols
Presentation 04/22/2023
NIST Call for Multi-Party Threshold Schemes: Brief Notes at RWC 2023
Luís T. A. N. Brandão - NIST/Strativia
Presented at:

Real World Crypto (RWC) Symposium 2023

2023-Mar-28 @ Tokyo (Japan)

Presentation 03/28/2023
Quantum-Resistance in the Upcoming NIST Call for Threshold Schemes
Luís T. A. N. Brandão - NIST/Strativia
Presented at:

Real World PQC 2023

2023-Mar-26 @ Tokyo (Japan)

Presentation 03/26/2023
A NIST Call for Threshold-Friendly & Quantum-Resistant Fully-Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) Schemes
Luís T. A. N. Brandão - NIST/Strativia
Presented at:

Presented at the 6th HomomorphicEncryption.org Standards Meeting

2023-March-23 @ Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

Presentation 03/23/2023
Public Calls Toward Standards & Guidelines for Crypto Primitives
Luís T. A. N. Brandão - NIST/Strativia
Lily Chen - NIST
Presented at:
NIST-ITL Science Day 2022 (October 24th)
Poster 10/24/2022
Threshold EdDSA/Schnorr Signatures
Luís T. A. N. Brandão - NIST/Strativia
Michael Davidson - NIST
Presented at:
NIST-ITL Science Day 2022 (October 24th)
Poster 10/24/2022
Upcoming NIST Call for Threshold Schemes
Luís T. A. N. Brandão - NIST/Strativia
Presented at:
Brief presentation at the Crypto 2022 Rump Session @ Santa Barbara, USA, 2022-Aug-16
Presentation 08/16/2022
Notes on Threshold EdDSA/Schnorr Signatures
Luís T. A. N. Brandão
Presented at:
Crypto Reading Club talk on 2022-Aug-10
Presentation 08/10/2022
Poster: Threshold Cryptography for Multiple Operators
Luís T. A. N. Brandão
Presented at:
NIST-ITL Science Day 2021 (October 28) --- Presentation by video-conference
Poster 10/28/2021
Multi-Party Threshold Schemes
Luís T. A. N. Brandão
Presented at:

NIST-ITL Virtual Science Day 2020 (October 29) -- Poster presentation over video-conference.

Joint work with Michael Davidson and Apostol Vassilev.

Poster 10/29/2020
Toward Criteria for Standardization of Multi-Party Threshold Schemes for Cryptographic Primitives
Luís T. A. N. Brandão
Presented at:

Presentation at the 2nd Workshop on Advanced Cryptography Applications and Standards

August 15, 2020, 10am, virtual event (affiliated with Crypto 2020)

Presentation 08/15/2020
Towards Standardization of Threshold Schemes at NIST
Luís T. A. N. Brandão
Presented at:
TIS'19 @ London, UK (2019-November-11)
Presentation 11/11/2019
Threshold Schemes for Cryptographic Primitives
Luís T. A. N. Brandão
Michael Davidson
Apostol Vassilev
Presented at:
NIST ITL Science Day 2019 @ NIST Gaithersburg, USA (November 06, 2019)
Poster 11/06/2019
Threshold Schemes for Cryptographic Primitives: A step towards standardization?
Luís T. A. N. Brandão
Presentation 07/18/2018
Sizing up the threshold
Luís T. A. N. Brandão
Apostol Vassilev
Presented at:

January 9, 2018 @ Second Theory of Implementation Security (TIS) Workshop (Zurich, Switzerland)

Presentation 01/09/2018
Created July 26, 2018, Updated July 06, 2026