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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2023
Nchain Licensing Ag, Zug, CH;
John Fletcher, Cambridge, GB;
Thomas Trevethan, London, GB;
NCHAIN LICENSING AG, Zug, CH;
Abstract
Techniques are presented to instantiate an event chain with a first block, wherein the first block is timestamped with an instantiation time; monitor for an event associated with a monitoring request; signal to other nodes in a plurality of nodes based on the monitoring by providing a commitment to a plurality of nodes in the plurality of nodes, wherein based on occurrence of the event providing either a dummy signal or an indicator comprising an encryption private key share held by the node, wherein the commitment is provided to the other nodes in the plurality of nodes; monitor for commitments from the other nodes in the plurality of nodes, wherein each commitment comprises a dummy signal or an encryption key share; process the commitments received from the other nodes to obtain an encryption private key share; and identify the encryption private key based on the analysis of the commitments.