As the Zcash ecosystem Security Lead, Zcash Community Grants (ZCG) requested that we perform a security audit of the FROST server and client components. The frost-crate is an implementation for a threshold Schnorr signatures scheme called FROST (RFC 9591, [KG20]). The frost-demo allows a user to locally mimic a key generation
Least Authority has been awarded a grant from the Ethereum Foundation’s Verified zkEVM program to create a comprehensive Lean blueprint for two cryptographic protocols, STIR [ACF+25] and WHIR [ACF+24], which are interactive oracle proofs of proximity (IOPPs) for Reed-Solomon codes. The zkEVM Program is a recent initiative that aims to
Lightec requested that Least Authority review several components of the zkBTC protocol, which is a bridge between Bitcoin and Ethereum, using techniques from zero-knowledge proofs. The bridge allows a Bitcoin user to mint a zkBTC token, use this token in the Ethereum ecosystem, and eventually redeem the Bitcoin from the
Threshold signing protocols, like FROST, help to facilitate trust while avoiding the reliance on a centralized authority. They do this by fault-tolerantly distributing information or computation among a cluster of cooperating computers. With the rapid advancement of secure digital systems, threshold cryptography is gaining traction through securing multi-signature wallets, protecting