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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2022
Nchain Licensing Ag, Zug, CH;
Michaella Pettit, London, GB;
nChain Licensing AG, Zug, CH;
Abstract
A computer-implemented method of generating a share of a threshold signature, wherein a group of participants comprises a set of target participants and a set of dummy participants, wherein the number of target participants is less than the number of participants required to generate a valid signature, wherein each target participant and each dummy participants has i) a respective share of a first private key, ii) a respective share of an ephemeral private key, iii) a respective share of a first blinding key, iv) a respective share of a second blinding key, and wherein each target participant has v) an ephemeral public key corresponding to the ephemeral private key.