PrivacyIN Privacy Academy Phase II focuses on threshold signatures and secure multi-party computation

Author: Privacy Institution

PrivacyIN Academy is dedicated to building an open community for the advocacy and research of cryptography and privacy technologies, collaborating with top scholars and privacy technology developers worldwide to promote innovations and implementations of ZK (Zero-Knowledge Proofs), MPC (Secure Multi-Party Computation), and FHE (Fully Homomorphic Encryption).

To drive innovation and implementation of privacy in next-generation multi-party computation scenarios, PrivacyIN Academy plans to conduct technical training, research community activities, and project innovation incubation around modern cryptographic technologies. This aims to lower the theoretical application barriers for developers and enhance the engineering innovation capabilities of cryptography researchers, collectively maintaining an open community for cryptographic privacy technologies.

Registration for PrivacyIN's Second Training Camp Now Open

TSS (Threshold Signature Scheme) is an important research direction in MPC (Secure Multi-Party Computation) key management, supporting multi-party management of private keys and assets. Compared to multi-signature protocols, it has more significant advantages in terms of security and cost.

The initiator of PrivacyIN Academy, LatticeX, has a strong research background in this field. The Open TSS project initiated by LatticeX is establishing an open community for TSS protocol research and engineering innovation. Open TSS is currently collaborating with several renowned institutions, including Northwestern University, Nanyang Technological University, and the University of Hong Kong, in the field of MPC research. Based on self-published papers in top cryptography conferences, it has accumulated solid technical strength, engineering capabilities, and a privacy computing ecological community. It has now open-sourced the relevant Open TSS code and supports the innovative implementation of multiple MPC wallets in the industry, providing ecological empowerment capabilities.

Open TSS official website

This course will focus on TSS, offering high-quality, high-density, and practice-oriented courses for participants.

Course Schedule:

This course will strictly select 20 participants for small-group tutoring. The expectations for participants are as follows:

• Able to dedicate at least 10 hours per week
• Familiar with basic cryptographic protocols or proficient in programming languages such as Rust, Golang, Solidity
• Complete pre-class preparation tasks, including reading classic papers and researching engineering projects
• Submit coding tasks after each class

The training camp course content has been refined over a long period and is developer-friendly. The entire training camp is completely free. Students who successfully graduate will receive diverse incentives provided by PrivacyIN, helping each developer understand MPC, grasp TSS, and potentially create their own projects. If your project shows potential, you may receive Prizes and Grants for incubation support to advance your project further.

Detailed Look at the TSS Training Camp Curriculum

The content of the second PrivacyIN developer course focuses on the introduction to MPC theoretical development and TSS engineering development practice. Main course topics include:

• Overview of MPC - introducing the cryptographic foundations and development overview of Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC)
• Overview of TSS - historical progress and research directions of the Threshold Signature (TSS) protocol
• Best Practices for TSS Industry Applications - best practices for threshold signatures in decentralized wallets, custody, and other web3 applications
• Open TSS Hands-on - hands-on training with the Open TSS open-source framework

Strong Faculty Team for the Training Camp

This TSS training camp is led by Professor Wang Xiao, Professor Xue Haiyang, and LatticeX Chief Product Officer Kyle Song.

Professor Wang Xiao is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Northwestern University. After obtaining his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, he conducted postdoctoral research at MIT and Boston University, covering areas such as computer security, privacy, and cryptography. His current research focuses on practical secure multi-party computation, zero-knowledge proofs, oblivious random access machines (ORAM), and post-quantum cryptography. In 2017, he received the ACM CCS Best Paper Award.

Professor Xue Haiyang is a research assistant professor in the School of Financial Technology and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Hong Kong. Previously, he was a cryptography researcher at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Kyle Song is currently responsible for product strategy and technical ecology at the LatticeX Foundation, promoting innovation and implementation of cryptographic privacy computing in the industry. Previously, he was a founding member of Google Blockchain CoE and led the OKCoin public chain research team, driving innovations in sharding scalability and privacy in public chains. He has long focused on and researched the intersection and innovation of cryptography, blockchain, and cloud computing.

The three instructors will provide participating developers with a rich, practical, and content-rich course.

Master TSS Skills Right Now

The registration channel is now fully open! Register here

We will contact you after your registration. We sincerely welcome you to join us in exploring the world of cryptography and opening the doors to building the digital world! We firmly believe that privacy computing is an extremely important foundation in solidifying the groundwork for the digital world.

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