BR050 - Libsecp Panel ft. Jonas Nick, Tim Ruffing, Lloyd Fournier, Jesse Posner & Rijndael

I’m joined by Jonas Nick, Tim Ruffing, Lloyd Fournier, Jesse Posner & Rijndael to discuss libsecp.

Discussion Topics

• 00:01:13 Guest intros

• 00:04:18 Importance of libsecp

• 00:11:21 Why libsecp was invented

• 00:15:44 The process of adding Schnoor

• 00:17:14 Tools and testing

• 00:25:43 Most interesting thing writing the library

• 00:34:05 Wrappers and vendors integrating libsecp

• 00:41:31 Side channel attacks

• 00:44:35 Testing

• 00:48:38 Hacspec

• 00:51:31 Signature types in research

• 00:52:51 Cross input aggregation

• 00:55:08 Deciding on what is included in the libsecp release

• 01:06:10 Are there enough contributors?

• 01:09:12 Musig2

• 01:10:28 Governance

• 01:13:32 Funding

• 01:14:09 Contributing

• 01:19:50 Security proofs for FROST

• 01:20:37 Nested musig FROST proofs

• 01:26:58 Nonce sharing

• 01:31:14 Demystifying libsecp

Notes & Resources

• bitcoin-core/secp256k1

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