Pieter Wuille and Tim Ruffing, Schnorr, MuSig, FROST and more - Episode 26


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Dec 15 2022 52 mins   37

Pieter Wuille and Tim Ruffing treat us to a conversation about Schnorr, multi-signatures, MuSig, and more. We covered a lot so this is part one of a two part conversation.


We discussed:

- When to roll your own cryptography (01:31)

- Schnorr Signatures (09:01)

  - Why is Schnorr preferable to ECDSA? (10:55)

- Schnorr efficiency improvements (15:52)

- Multisigs (23:16)

- MuSig (25:07)

  - Yannick Seurin

  - Rogue key attack or key cancellation attack (31:00)

  - Bellare-Neven (32:12)

- Interactive versus non-interactive protocols (35:30)

- FROST (42:42)