International Association for Cryptologic Research

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IACR News item: 08 February 2023

Announcement Announcement
NIST has published NISTIR 8214C ipd: NIST First Call for Multi-Party Threshold Schemes (Initial Public Draft). The call has two categories: cat1, for NIST-specified primitives; and cat2, for primitives not specified by NIST.

The period of public comments is open till April 10, 2023. The participation of the cryptology community is essential for the success of this initiative.

Details here: https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/nistir/8214c/draft

Consider also joining the MPTC forum: https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/threshold-cryptography/email-list
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