PhD Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) | Threshold Cryptography • Golden: Lightweight Non-Interactive Distributed Key Generation

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Chelsea Komlo, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Ian Goldberg, Douglas Stebila

In this talk, we will present Golden, a non-interactive Distributed Key Generation (DKG) protocol. The core innovation of Golden is how it achieves public verifiability in a lightweight manner, allowing all participants to non-interactively verify that all other participants followed the protocol correctly. For this reason, Golden can be performed with only one round of (broadcast) communication. Non-interactive DKGs are important for distributed applications; as parties may go offline at any moment, reducing rounds of communication is a desirable feature.

Attend this PhD seminar virtually on Zoom.