The Zcash Foundation has been looking into Oblivious Message Retrieval (OMR) to determine whether it offers a potential solution to the recent performance problems that have affected Zcash wallet users, and whether there are any advantages to be gained from implementing this in a Zcash context.
In this post, we briefly describe the threshold signature scheme FROST, and present benchmark results for our FROST implementation. We also describe one optimization that greatly improves its speed, especially for scenarios with a large number of signers.
We are pleased to announce an updated version of FROST, a Flexible Round-Optimized Schnorr Threshold signature scheme. FROST is designed to reduce the interaction between participants
Protocols like Cosmos, Polkadot, and Ethereum 2.0 that aim to add interoperability across different blockchains are rapidly gaining steam. The Zcash Foundation knows there’s a
All too often, the law of the hammer holds true: if the only tool you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail. This law
Two weeks ago, we published a call-to-action urging the cryptography and privacy community to come together to work on the problem of privacy-preserving contact tracing. As noted
In our previous post, we talked about how the problem of building decentralized, privacy-preserving contact tracing systems is an opportunity to meaningfully apply cryptography to a
Over the last few months and especially the last few weeks, the spread of COVID-19 has created a massive health crisis at global scale. Healthcare
We have a happy announcement to share! The Zcash Foundation donated 1,044.41369 ZEC (equivalent to $40,000 USD at the time of donation) to Canadian nonprofit Open
At the beginning of this year, executive director Josh Cincinnati set goals for the Zcash Foundation, “with a renewed energy toward redistributing centers of unilateral power
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