Workshop on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes (MPTS) 2023, on September 26–28

[Brandao, Luis (IntlAssoc)]

Dear threshold cryptography friends,

The NIST Workshop on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes (MPTS) 2023 will take place as a virtual event, on 2023-September-26–28.

This is being organized in a short time-frame, before publication of the final version of NISTIR 8214C, to collect further feedback about the NIST Threshold Call and process.

Live attendance. Virtual attendance is free but requires registration. 

• Detailed info and updates: https://csrc.nist.gov/events/2023/mpts2023
  
• Tweet: https://twitter.com/NISTcyber/status/1691816957128200595
  

Short presentations. We are seeking submissions (till September 5th) of abstracts (max 350 words) for short presentations (15 min or less), aiming to provide:

1. feedback to improve the final version of the Threshold Call (NISTIR 8214C); or/and
2. comments to motivate/facilitate community participation in the upcoming process.

How to submit an abstract: fill the submission form (PDF) [see the last two pages] and send it by email to workshop-mpts2023 (at) nist (dot) gov

• Submission deadline: 2023-September-05
  
• Notification with decision of presentations: 2023-September-12

Example cases in which we'd like you to consider presenting at MPTS 2023:

• You are considering possibly submitting (in 2024) a threshold scheme or gadget in reply to the NIST Threshold Call.
• You have suggestions for improving the threshold call document (NISTIR 8214C).
• You are aware of technical challenges that should be considered in some subcategory of submissions.
• You have general technical suggestions for the community of potential submitters.
• You have previously submitted written public comments (for past related publications, such as NISTIR 8214C, NISTIR 8214B, Call 2021a, NISTIR 8214A), which would be useful to reiterate for more awareness by the community of possible submitters.

For other "suggested topics for presentations", check the event webpage and the call for abstracts.

Thank you!

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Luís Brandão

NIST/Strativia: Foreign Guest Researcher at NIST (Contractor via Strativia)

[Luis Brandao]

Gentle reminder: the MPTS 2023 workshop (fully virtual) starts on Tuesday 2023-Sep-26, 10:00am EDT.

The 3-days detailed agenda (10:00–12:00, 13:00–15:00 EDT) is online:

https://csrc.nist.gov/events/2023/mpts2023

Attendance is free, upon registration. The workshop includes around 30 talks, organized in sessions, as follows:

1st day of workshop — Tuesday, 2023-September-26th:

• Session 1a (10:00–12:00): Generic Considerations on Threshold Cryptography / MPC
• Session 1b (13:00–15:00 EDT): Threshold Signatures over Elliptic Curves

2nd day of workshop — Wednesday, 2023-September-27th:

• Session 2a (10:00–12:00): FHE, ZKP, and ABE
• Session 2b (13:00–14:00 EDT): More on Threshold Signing (applications, implementation attacks, feasible approaches)
• Session 2c (14:00–15:00 EDT): NIST Crypto Standards

3rd day of workshop — Thursday, 2023-September-28th:

• Session 3a (10:00–11:40 EDT): Some Gadgets
• Session 3b (11:40–12:00 EDT): Focused Feedback
• Session 3c (13:00–14:50 EDT): More Gadgets

Note: Session 2b is a short period for additional oral comments about the threshold call/process. Within the available time, this is open to comments by the attendees. Please check the abstract to see how to participate.

Thank you for your interest in the workshop and the threshold call/process.