IACR News item: 01 January 2025
Hanwen Feng, Qiang Tang
ePrint Report
This paper presents the first optimal-resilient, adaptively secure asynchronous common coin protocol with $O(\lambda n^2)$ communication complexity and $O(1)$ rounds, requiring only a public silent setup. Our protocol immediately implies a sequence of quadratic-communication, constant-round asynchronous Byzantine agreement protocols and asynchronous distributed key generation with a silent setup. Along the way, we formulate a new primitive called asynchronous subset alignment and introduce a simple framework to reason about specific composition security suitable for asynchronous common coin, which may be of independent interest.
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