A Comprehensive Survey of Threshold Signatures: NIST Standards, Post-Quantum Cryptography, Exotic Techniques, and Real-World Applications
Abstract
Threshold digital signatures enable a distributed execution of signature functionalities and will play a crucial role in the security of emerging decentralized next-generation networked systems and applications. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive and systematic survey of threshold and distributed signatures with advanced features. Our survey encompasses threshold signatures in conventional and post-quantum cryptography (PQC) settings and captures custom-design and standard signatures (e.g., conventional NIST and NIST-PQC). We examine both generic (via secure multi-party computation) and custom thresholding techniques for a myriad of signature families while investigating exotic signatures, real-life applications, and potential future research direction.
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@article{arxiv.2311.05514,
title = {A Comprehensive Survey of Threshold Signatures: NIST Standards, Post-Quantum Cryptography, Exotic Techniques, and Real-World Applications},
author = {Kiarash Sedghighadikolaei and Attila Altay Yavuz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.05514},
year = {2024}
}