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Threshold Cryptography with Tendermint Core

@inproceedings{Froidevaux2020ThresholdCW,
  title={Threshold Cryptography with Tendermint Core},
  author={Nathalie Froidevaux},
  year={2020}
}
Threshold cryptography provides protocols and techniques for building secure distributed systems and services that perform cryptographic operations while tolerating multiple faults and security breaches occurring at the same time. Threshold cryptosystems are operated by multiple parties which execute the cryptographic operations in collaboration and maintain privacy, availability and correctness even in the presence of some corrupted parties. The emergence and rise of blockchain technologies… 
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