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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2022
Applicant:
Nchain Licensing Ag, Zug, CH;
Inventor:
Michaella Pettit, London, GB;
Assignee:
nChain Licensing AG, Zug, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/3255 (2013.01); H04L 9/085 (2013.01); H04L 9/0869 (2013.01);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method of requiring at least one of a sub-group of a group of participants to contribute to a threshold-optimal signature scheme, wherein the valid signature comprises a first signature component and a second signature component, wherein each participant has a respective private key share of a shared private key, a respective ephemeral private key share of a shared ephemeral private key, and the first signature component, wherein the shared private key can only be generated with at least a first threshold number of respective private key shares.