DRand

DRand

Publicly verifiable randomness

DRand produces publicly verifiable, unbiasable, and unpredictable random beacons using threshold BLS signatures over pairing-friendly elliptic curves. A network of independent nodes (League of Entropy) runs a distributed key generation (DKG) protocol and then periodically produces randomness that any third party can verify against the group public key.

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Decentralized Distributed Systems Laboratory

Decentralized Distributed Systems Laboratory
Bryan Ford

Prof. Bryan Ford

The DEDIS team is working on projects related to large-scale collective authorities (cothorities), which distribute trust among a number of independent parties to allow scalable self-organizing communities. With no single trusted party, cothorities can secure software updates, provide public randomness, enable privacy-conscious medical-data sharing and a lot more. Other projects include communicating securely over insecure channels and fast, scalable, accountable anonymous communication.

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