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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2022
Nchain Licensing Ag, Zug, CH;
Michaella Pettit, London, GB;
nChain Licensing AG, Zug, CH;
Abstract
A computer-implemented method of generating a respective signature share of a digital signature for signing a message, wherein the method is performed by a first participant of the group and comprises: obtaining at least the threshold number of respective participant indexes, wherein the obtained respective participant indexes comprises a first participant index associated with the first participant; generating a private key index, wherein the private key index is generated based on a hash of a combination of the obtained respective participant indexes; generating a second common private key of the first hierarchical key structure; and generating a first signature share of the digital signature.