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frost-dkg

An implementation for the Frost Distributed Key Generation protocol

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Frost-DKG

The Frost Distributed Key Generation Algorithm as described here.

This protocol is a variant of PedersenVSS that also requires participants to prove their secret with a schnorr proof to mitigate rogue-key attacks.

This library also provides the ability to publicly verify the DKG results for correctness using solely the broadcast information from round 1 and the DKG parameters.

Security Notes

The implementation contained in this crate has never been independently audited!

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Minimum Supported Rust Version

This crate requires Rust 1.82 at a minimum.

We may change the MSRV in the future, but it will be accompanied by a minor version bump.

License

Licensed under

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

Dependencies

~6.5–9.5MB
~194K SLoC