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Pedersen Verifiable Secret Shares (PVSS), Commitments and Spotting A Bad Dealer and a Cheating Player

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Okay. Let’s say you are in a card game, how do you know that the dealer is honest, and that the other players are also honest? Well, let’s say we have n players in the card game, and we want to make it fair. For this, we could agree that t players can come together and agree on the card that has been dealt. This would…

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
ASecuritySite: When Bob Met Alice

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.