NIST has released an initial public draft of their First Call for Multi-Party Threshold Schemes, seeking public comments on the document. The draft outlines specific categories and requirements for threshold scheme submissions, including security characterization, technical description, open-source implementation, and performance evaluation.
The purpose of this call is to gather reference material for NIST’s cryptographic technology group to analyze the viability of threshold schemes and related primitives. This will support future development of NIST recommendations in multi-party threshold cryptography and privacy-enhancing cryptography.
The public comment period for NIST IR 8214C IPD closes on April 10, 2023. Potential submitters are encouraged to prepare early using the draft as a baseline, but actual submissions should wait until the final version is published. The draft is available for download from the publication details page, with instructions on how to submit comments also provided.
Keywords: threshold, primitives, cryptography, submission, patent
