Create and verify distributed multi-party signatures
Project description
A command-line tool for creating and verifying distributed multi-party signatures.
Installation
$ virtualenv env $ . env/bin/activate $ pip install -e .
Usage
Key generation
On one machine, run:
$ partysig keygen start
On the other machines, run:
$ partysig keygen join
Signing
On the machine with the file to sign, run:
$ partysig sign start FILE
On the other machines, run:
$ partysig sign join
Verifying signatures
Run:
$ partysig verify FILE SIGNATURE
Design
The current signature version (v1) implements Bitcoin-style multi-sig, where the overall multisignature contains:
The number of signatures required for the multisignature to be valid
The public keys allowed to create signatures
Signatures from a subset of those keys
The first two parts together are equivalent to a Bitcoin script, and are similarly hashed to get the “master key” for the multi-party signature group. Ed25519 is used for the individual signatures, and BLAKE2b is used for creating the master key.
Signature format
Version (1-byte uint) \ Threshold (1-byte uint) |_ Hashed to obtain Size (1-byte uint) | the master key Pubkeys (32 x size bytes) / Signatures (64 x threshold bytes)
Acknowledgements
Joanna Rutkowska asked the question that prompted the creation of this tool.
Brian Warner wrote Magic Wormhole, which is a key component to this tool’s usability.
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