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Decentralized Cryptography: A Distant Dream or an Immediate Possibility?

on YouTube 01h 14m
Talkat Real-World Decentralized Cryptography Workshop 2021 · on Friday, 2021-01-15· [cryptography]

speakers

name:Ittai Ibrahim
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name:Andrew Miller
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name:Christian Cachin
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name:Harry Halpin
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name:Aniket Kate
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resources

video:https://youtu.be/WfxmvK13HUs
slides:none on file

summary

Panel argues threshold crypto moves from theory to scattered practice: live trusted setup ceremonies with dozens of participants produce SNARK parameters, but many deployments use aggregated signatures instead of full DKGs because of tooling and proof complexity; NIST and IETF work toward standards like FROST/MuSig variants. Real systems stress anonymous channels and mixnets for survivability after DDoS, expose risks from retained key backups and retrospective corruption, and highlight missing multi‑codebase implementations, adaptive‑adversary proofs, and economic/governance models.

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chapters (5)

  1. 0:00Start
  2. 1:00Christian Kashin
  3. 2:04Andrew Miller
  4. 33:37How Can End Users Know that They Can Trust the System
  5. 37:38Examples of Governance

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