Publicly Verifiable Secret Sharing (PVSS)

Summary

In this post we described a possible direction to hardening randomness generation in Tezos using a PVSS scheme in a 2-step protocol upgrade that gives extra time to bakers to update their operations. PVSS is not a silver-bullet solution to the problem of randomness generation, however it provides a considerable improvement over the current commit-reveal scheme.

Full Article on Metastate’s Medium Blog

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