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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2018
Nchain Licensing Ag, Zug, CH;
Giuseppe Destefanis, London, GB;
Simone Madeo, London, GB;
Patrick Motylinski, London, GB;
Stephane Vincent, Luxembourg, LU;
NCHAIN LICENSING AG, Zug, CH;
Abstract
Methods and devices that manage the secure distribution of credentials from a group of autonomous specialized nodes to a requesting node. The secure distribution of credentials may uses secret share and a group private key that none of the nodes reconstructs or possesses. The credentials include an identifier for the requesting node and a secret point that the node assembles from portions of the secret point provided by each of a plurality of the specialized nodes, where the secret point is based on the group private key and a map-to-point hash of the requesting node's identifier.