DLC Key Management Pt 3: Oracle Public Key Distribution
Discreet Log Contracts enable non-custodial speculation directly on top of the bitcoin blockchain. When protocols are non-custodial, it’s important for users to understand how private keys are handled for the duration of their interaction with the protocol. This blog post …
DLC Private Key Management Part 2: The Oracle’s private keys
Oracle Private Key Management Discreet Log Contracts enable non-custodial speculation directly on top of the bitcoin blockchain. When protocols are non-custodial, it’s important for users to understand how private keys are handled for the duration of their interaction with the …
DLC Private Key Management Part 1
Discreet Log Contracts enable non-custodial speculation directly on top of the bitcoin blockchain. When protocols are non-custodial, it’s important for users to understand how private keys are handled in the protocol. With DLCs, there is the potential for millions of …
Schnorr Series Summary
Y’all asked for a high-level, no math, summary of the Schnorr Signature Series and so here you are! If this piques your interest and you are willing/excited to learn some math, check out the series: What are Schnorr Signatures – …
The Taproot Upgrade
So far in this series we have discussed Schnorr Digital Signatures, their security, and their many variants and benefits. As you may know, Schnorr signatures are going to be introduced to the Bitcoin blockchain using a softfork known as Taproot. …
Schnorr Applications: Blind Signatures
In this post we will be discussing one final Schnorr scheme: Blind Signatures. As their name suggests, a Schnorr Blind Signature is a signature where the signer does not know what they have signed. It may be hard to imagine …
Schnorr Applications: FROST
In the last post of this series we discussed Threshold Signature schemes as well as their uses and I’d like to continue that discussion today with an exploration of FROST. FROST can be thought of as the natural extension of MuSig …
Schnorr Applications: Threshold Signatures
In today’s installment of the Suredbits Schnorr Series, we will begin our exploration of threshold signatures schemes! We will discuss various uses for threshold signatures and then go on to describe three different ways of doing threshold signatures, each with …
Schnorr Applications: Batch Verification
So far in this series, we’ve discussed what Schnorr signatures are, why they are secure, and how Schnorr variants can be used to implement private and scalable multi-signatures and scriptless scripts using adaptor signatures. Today we will be looking at yet …
Schnorr Applications: Scriptless Scripts
In this post we continue our survey of Schnorr-enabled schemes and their applications to Bitcoin by exploring the exciting world of Scriptless Scripts which are enabled by a signature scheme called Adaptor Signatures. I will note that while it is …