Distributed key generation

For some protocols no party should be in the sole possession of the secret key. Rather, during distributed key generation every party obtains a share of the key. A threshold of the participating parties need to cooperate in order to achieve a cryptographic task, such as decrypting a message.

In this sense distributed key generation is a logical preliminary step for doing threshold decryption without need for a trusted third party

There are different algorithms for different key types. Gennaro et al. introduced a secure protocol for discrete log-based systems in 1999^[1]. Boneh and Franklin designed in 1997 a protocol for distributed RSA key generation for three or more parties ^[2]. In 1999, a paper by Gilboa ^[3] introduced two party distributed RSA key generation. An open source software for this protocol is available at ^[4].

References

Public-key cryptography

Algorithms

Integer factorization	Benaloh Blum–Goldwasser Cayley–Purser Damgård–Jurik GMR Goldwasser–Micali Naccache–Stern Paillier Rabin RSA Okamoto–Uchiyama Schmidt–Samoa
Discrete logarithm	BLS Cramer–Shoup DH DSA ECDH X25519 X448 ECDSA EdDSA Ed25519 Ed448 ECMQV EKE ElGamal signature scheme MQV Schnorr SPEKE SRP STS
Lattice/SVP/CVP/LWE/SIS	BLISS Kyber NewHope NTRUEncrypt NTRUSign RLWE-KEX RLWE-SIG
Others	AE CEILIDH EPOC HFE IES Lamport McEliece Merkle–Hellman Naccache–Stern knapsack cryptosystem Three-pass protocol XTR SQIsign

Theory

Standardization

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