Practical asynchronous distributed key generation
Das S, Yurek T, Xiang Z, Miller A, Kokoris Kogias E, Ren L. 2022. Practical asynchronous distributed key generation. 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. SP: Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2518–2534.
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Das, Sourav;
Yurek, Thomas;
Xiang, Zhuolun;
Miller, Andrew;
Kokoris Kogias, LefterisISTA;
Ren, Ling
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Abstract
Distributed Key Generation (DKG) is a technique to bootstrap threshold cryptosystems without a trusted third party and is a building block to decentralized protocols such as randomness beacons, threshold signatures, and general multiparty computation. Until recently, DKG protocols have assumed the synchronous model and thus are vulnerable when their underlying network assumptions do not hold. The recent advancements in asynchronous DKG protocols are insufficient as they either have poor efficiency or limited functionality, resulting in a lack of concrete implementations. In this paper, we present a simple and concretely efficient asynchronous DKG (ADKG) protocol. In a network of n nodes, our ADKG protocol can tolerate up to t<n/3 malicious nodes and have an expected O(κn3) communication cost, where κ is the security parameter. Our ADKG protocol produces a field element as the secret and is thus compatible with off-the-shelf threshold cryptosystems. We implement our ADKG protocol and evaluate it using a network of up to 128 nodes in geographically distributed AWS instances. Our evaluation shows that our protocol takes as low as 3 and 9.5 seconds to terminate for 32 and 64 nodes, respectively. Also, each node sends only 0.7 Megabytes and 2.9 Megabytes of data during the two experiments, respectively.
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2022-07-27
Proceedings Title
2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Acknowledgement
The authors would like to thank Amit Agarwal, Adithya Bhat, Kobi Gurkan, Dakshita Khurana, Nibesh Shrestha, and Gilad Stern for the helpful discussions related to the paper.
Also, the authors would like to thank Sylvain Bellemare for helping with the hbACSS codebase and Nicolas Gailly for helping with running the Drand experiments.
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2518-2534
Conference
SP: Symposium on Security and Privacy
Conference Location
San Francisco, CA, United States
Conference Date
2022-05-23 – 2022-05-26
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Das S, Yurek T, Xiang Z, Miller A, Kokoris Kogias E, Ren L. Practical asynchronous distributed key generation. In: 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; 2022:2518-2534. doi:10.1109/sp46214.2022.9833584
Das, S., Yurek, T., Xiang, Z., Miller, A., Kokoris Kogias, E., & Ren, L. (2022). Practical asynchronous distributed key generation. In 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (pp. 2518–2534). San Francisco, CA, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/sp46214.2022.9833584
Das, Sourav, Thomas Yurek, Zhuolun Xiang, Andrew Miller, Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias, and Ling Ren. “Practical Asynchronous Distributed Key Generation.” In 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2518–34. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1109/sp46214.2022.9833584.
S. Das, T. Yurek, Z. Xiang, A. Miller, E. Kokoris Kogias, and L. Ren, “Practical asynchronous distributed key generation,” in 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, CA, United States, 2022, pp. 2518–2534.
Das S, Yurek T, Xiang Z, Miller A, Kokoris Kogias E, Ren L. 2022. Practical asynchronous distributed key generation. 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. SP: Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2518–2534.
Das, Sourav, et al. “Practical Asynchronous Distributed Key Generation.” 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2022, pp. 2518–34, doi:10.1109/sp46214.2022.9833584.
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