README.md

CoinParty

By Jan Henrik Ziegeldorf, Fred Grossmann, Martin Henze, Nicolas Inden, Klaus Wehrle

This is the Python implementation of CoinParty by the Bitcoin Association of Berkeley.

Notes

CoinParty paper https://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/fileadmin/papers/2015/2015-ziegeldorf-codaspy-coinparty.pdf

pyelliptic: python elliptic curve library / OpenSSL wrapper

• https://github.com/yann2192/pyelliptic

Implementing the Commitment Phase (Max)

Python implementations of Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme:

• https://github.com/blockstack/secret-sharing
• https://github.com/hbs/PySSSS

Damgard's Share conversion, pseudorandom secret-sharing and applications to secure distributed computing

• http://www.iacr.org/cryptodb/archive/2005/TCC/3618/3618.pdf

Replicated Secret Sharing - "Secret Sharing Scheme Realizing General Access Structure"

• http://archiv.infsec.ethz.ch/education/as09/secsem/papers/ItSaNi87.pdf

Only known implementation of replicated secret sharing, in Ruby:

• https://github.com/lawrencejones/crypto/blob/master/lib/secret_sharing/replicated_scheme.rb

Outdated Multiparty Computation Library

• http://viff.dk/

Ruby in 20 Minutes:

• https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/quickstart/

(Philip)