International Association for Cryptologic Research: Compact Certificates of Collective Knowledge

March 30, 2021

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Written by: Algorand Foundation

This paper introduces the concept of compact certificate schemes. These schemes enable any party to condense a large number of signatures on a message M, obtained from signers with different weights, into a significantly shorter certificate. This compressed certificate efficiently convinces verifiers that signers with a combined weight have indeed signed M.

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