<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1y22yec0znyzw8qndy5qn5c2wgejkj0k9zsqra7kvrd6cd6896z4qm5taj0</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1y22yec0znyzw8qndy5qn5c2wgejkj0k9zsqra7kvrd6cd6896z4qm5taj0</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2018-09-05&#xA;📝 Original message:Why would you call it FUD?   All the weird hemming and hawing about it is&#xA;really strange to me.  The more I look into it and speak to professors&#xA;about i, the more it seems &#34;so trivial nobody really talks about it&#34;.&#xA;&#xA;1. Generate an M of N shared public key (done in advance of signing ....&#xA;this gets you the bitcoin address)&#xA;2. Generate signature fragments (this can be done offline, with no&#xA;communication between participants)&#xA;&#xA;Detailed explanation with code snippets:&#xA;&#xA;https://medium.com/@simulx/an-m-of-n-bitcoin-multisig-scheme-e7860ab34e7f&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 8:05 PM Andrew Poelstra &lt;apoelstra at wpsoftware.net&gt;&#xA;wrote:&#xA;&#xA;&gt; On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 08:09:36AM -0400, Erik Aronesty wrote:&#xA;&gt; &gt; Note:&#xA;&gt; &gt;&#xA;&gt; &gt; This spec cannot be used directly with a shamir scheme to produce&#xA;&gt; &gt; single-round threshold multisigs, because shares of point R would need to&#xA;&gt; &gt; be broadcast to share participants in order to produce valid single&#xA;&gt; &gt; signatures.&#xA;&gt; &gt;&#xA;&gt; &gt; (R, s) schemes can still be used &#34;online&#34;, if share participants publish&#xA;&gt; &gt; the R(share).... but, not sure if it matter much, this choice eliminates&#xA;&gt; &gt; offline multiparty signing in exchange for batch validation.&#xA;&gt; &gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; Please stop with this FUD. No tradeoff was made. There are no&#xA;&gt; non-interactive&#xA;&gt; Schnorr signatures.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; Andrew&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; --&#xA;&gt; Andrew Poelstra&#xA;&gt; Mathematics Department, Blockstream&#xA;&gt; Email: apoelstra at wpsoftware.net&#xA;&gt; Web:   https://www.wpsoftware.net/andrew&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; &#34;A goose alone, I suppose, can know the loneliness of geese&#xA;&gt;  who can never find their peace,&#xA;&gt;  whether north or south or west or east&#34;&#xA;&gt;        --Joanna Newsom&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;-------------- next part --------------&#xA;An HTML attachment was scrubbed...&#xA;URL: &lt;http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20180905/c41fdcc4/attachment-0001.html&gt;</html></oembed>