[HN Gopher] Confidential Space and multi-party computation can h...
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       Confidential Space and multi-party computation can help manage
       digital assets
        
       Author : mooreds
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2023-01-29 18:37 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | rektide wrote:
       | There's a lot of fundamemtals here that sound like they'd be
       | ideal for a flight tracker/ads-b exchange[1] network. A bunch of
       | parties contributing and auditing data collectively. Going beyond
       | shallow ideas of p2p and talking about Multi-Party Compute is
       | interesting.
       | 
       | Notably this seems quite hosted/centralized a system, as a
       | coordinator/facilitator of the distributed trust. But many of
       | core technologies around group-cryptography/signing seem like
       | they'd be the same even im a more distributed system.
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       | To that effect, worth noting that the ietf's Message Layer
       | Security (mls) work has been very active & underway for quite a
       | while, and encompasses a lot of group cryptography concerns. They
       | just submitted their first three proposals back in September,
       | after many years of work!
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       | [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34520355
        
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