# FS-DKR: One Round Distributed Key Rotation

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# FS-DKR: One Round Distributed Key Rotation

## Intro

In this note we aim to re-purpose the Fouque-Stern Distributed Key Generation (DKG) to support a secure Distributed Key Refresh (DKR). As we claim, FS-DKR is well suited for rotation of threshold ECDSA keys.

## Background

The FS-DKG protocol is a one round DKG based on Publicly Verifiable Secret Sharing (PVSS) and the Paillier cryptosystem. There are two major security shortcomings to FS-DKG:

1. It introduces a factoring assumptions (DCRA)
2. it is insecure against rushing adversary

Rushing adversary is a common assumption in Multiparty Computation (MPC). In FS-DKG, an adversary waiting to receive messages from all other parties will be able to decide on the final public key. In the worst case it can lead to a rouge-key attack, giving full control of the secret key to the attacker. This is the main reason, in our opinion, why FS-DKG, altough with prominent features, was over-looked for the past 20 years. in this write-up we show how by adjusting FS-DKG to key rotation for threshold ecdsa the above shortcomings are avoided.

## Our Model

We use standard proactive security assumptions. The protocol will be run by $n$ parties. We assume honest majority, that is, number of corruptions is $t<n/2$. The adversary is malicious, and rushing. For communication, the parties have access to a broadcast channel (can be implemented via a bulletin board). For threshold ECDSA, we focus on GG20 protocol, currently considered state of the art and most widely deployed threshold ecdsa scheme (e.g. multi-party-ecdsa, tss-lib).

## High-level Description of FS-DKG

Here we give a short description of the FS-DKG protocol. FS-DKG works in one round. This round includes a single broadcast message from each party $P_j$. For Setup, we assume every party in the system has a public/private key pair for Paillier encryption scheme. At first, $P_j$ picks a random secret $s$ and secret shares it. $P_j$ publishes one set of size $t$ of commitment points $\textbf{A}$ corresponding to the polynomial coefficients: $A_i = a_iG$, and one set of $n$ commitment points $\textbf{S}$ corresponding to $n$ points on the polynomial: $S_i = \sigma_i G$. The points on the polynomial are also encrypted using the paillier keys of the receiving parties: $Enc_{pk_i}(\sigma_i)$. Finally, $P_j$ computes zero knowledge proofs $\pi_i$ to show that the paillier encryption for $P_i$ encrypts the same value commited in $S_i$. The ZK proof is a sigma protocol (can be made non-interactive using Fiat-Shamir) given in the original FS paper under the name proof of fairness. We implemented it under the same name.

Verification proceeds as follows. Each party $P_j$ verifies:

1. all broadcasted proofs of fairness
2. all secret sharing schemes - computing the polynomial points "at the exponent"

The parties define the set $\mathcal{Q}$ to be the set of the first $t+1$ parties for which all checks passed. we now show a simple optimization on how each party computes its local secret key: Each party maps its encrypted shares from ${t,n}$ to ${\mathcal{Q},\mathcal{Q}}$. It then homomorphically adds all the paillier ciphertext (which is an additive homomorphic scheme) and decrypts to get the local secret key.

## Adjusting FS-DKG to DKR and threshold ECDSA

We will now highlight the adjustments required for FS-DKR. In a key refresh protocol the parties start with their inputs equal to the outputs of a DKG done in the past or the output of previous DKR. Meaning, as opposed to FS-DKG protocol in which the inputs are pseudorandom such that the attacker can bias the output, for example in a rushing adversary attack, FS-DKR avoids this potential attack on FS-DKG because of the added restriction over the inputs of the attacker. Concretely, in the case the parties must reshare their DKG/DKR output secret share, all other parties already know a public commitment to the attacker secret share and can check for it. Recall that FS-DKG is secure assuming Paillier is secure (what we called DCRA assumption). Moreover, we assumed a setup phase in which all parties generate paillier keys and share them. This fits well with threshold ECDSA: First, GG20 already requires us to assume Paillier security, therefore in this particular case, no new assumption is needed. The setup phase actually happens as part of GG20 DKG. We will use this to our advantage, running the FS-DKR using the GG20-DKG paillier keys. Obviously because we need to refresh the paillier keys as well we will also add a step to FS-DKR to generate new paillier keys and prove they were generated correctly. This is a standard proof, that can be made non-interactive. See the zk-paillier lib for an implementation.

Adding/Removing parties: There is a clear distinction between parties with secret shares (”Senders”) and new parties (”Receivers”). The FS-DKR protocol therefore supports adding and removing parties in a natural way: Define $\mathcal{J}>t+1$ the subset of parties participating in the protocol. To remove an existing party $P_i$, other parties exclude it from the subset $\mathcal{J}$. To add a new party, we assume the parties in $\mathcal{J}$ are aware of the new party' paillier key. In that case, the parties in $\mathcal{J}$ assign an index $i$ to the new party and broadcast the PVSS messages to it. Removal of a party is simply done by not broadcasting the encrypted messages to it. If enough parties decide on that for a party index, they will not be able to reconstruct a rotated key.

Identifiable Abort: A nice property of FS-DKR is that if a party misbehaves all honest parties learn about it. This is due to the nature of PVSS used in the protocol. As GG20, our reference threshold ECDSA protocol, also have this property, it is important that identifiable abort can be guaranteed throughout the DKR as well.

For completeness, Below is the FS-DKR protocol, written as FS-DKG with changes in red for DKR. The protocol is implemented in the ZenGo-X/fs-dkr repo (warning, the code is not audited yet).

## Related Work

Our main requirement from FS-DKR is minimal round-count. In FS-DKR the parties can pre-process all the data they need to send. Our main bottleneck is $\mathcal{O}(n^2)$ communication, which seems a standard cost in our context: It is the same asymptotic complexity as we have in GG20-DKG and GG20-Signing.

In this section we focus on alternative protocols for DKR. Three recent results come to mind. The first one, CGGMP20, is another threshold ECDSA protocol with a companion refresh protocol, see figure 6 in the paper. Their protocol has the most resemblance to FS-DKR, with few notable differences. First, while FS-DKR is publicly verifiable, CGGMP20-DKR current version suffers from a technichal issue with its Identifiable Abort (acknowledged by the authors). Second, the paillier keys used in the CGGMP20-DKR are the new ones, while in FS-DKR, we use the old ones, already known to all, which helps us save a round of communication. Finally, CGMMP20-DKR key refresh is done by adding shares of zero while in FS-DKR we re-share existing shares. Overall we treat the similarities between the protocols as a positive signal of validation for FS-DKR. A second protocol, by Gurkan et. al., uses gossip for aggregating transcripts from the parties. However, their DKG is generating group elements secret shares and we need field elements secret shares for our threshold ECDSA. The third relevant work is Jens Groth' Non interactive DKG and DKR. There, instead of paillier encryption, they use El-Gamal based encryption scheme that offers forward security. Their DKR makes the assumption that the El-Gamal decryption keys are long-term and not rotated. This assumption seems crucial for the Groth-DKG construction. In our context it means that we need to let the parties generate, store and use a new set of keypair,in addition to the Paillier keypair, and that this new keypair poses a security risk against the classical mobile adversary, which our model does not allow. As opposed to Groth-DKR, FS-DKR is reusing the existing paillier keypair and rotate it as well. In terms of efficiency - there is no complexity analysis given in the paper, however, from inspection we estimate the asymptotic complexity is comparable to FS-DKR (quadratic in the number of parties).

## Acknowledgments

We thank Claudio Orlandi, Kobi Gurkan and Nikolaos Makriyannis for reviewing the note

# Overview

Updates all packages to the latest versions they have in the other repos so that it's consistent with multi-party-ecdsa master. It is needed to generalize some types to make this consistent there as well.

Would appreciate reviews if possible. All but one tests are passing at the moment. Currently, the failing test is:

running 6 tests
test proof_of_fairness::tests::test_bad_fairness_proof - should panic ... ok
test proof_of_fairness::tests::test_fairness_proof ... ok
test test::tests::test1 ... ok
test test::tests::test_add_party ... FAILED
test test::tests::test_remove_sign_rotate_sign ... ok
test test::tests::test_sign_rotate_sign ... ok

failures:

---- test::tests::test_add_party stdout ----
thread 'test::tests::test_add_party' panicked at 'Incorrect Alice's range proof in MtA: InvalidKey', /Users/drew/webb/multi-party-ecdsa/src/protocols/multi_party_ecdsa/gg_2020/state_machine/sign/rounds.rs:156:14

Namely, it fails to simulate_offline: https://github.com/webb-tools/fs-dkr/blob/drew/update-versions/src/test.rs#L162-L164

simulate_replace(&mut keys, &[2, 7], t as usize, n as usize).unwrap();
let offline_sign = simulate_offline_stage(keys, &[1, 2, 7]);
simulate_signing(offline_sign, b"ZenGo");

opened by drewstone 3
• #### dkr-remove problem

Hi teams. After I use dkr-removal, I use the removed keypair to sign and it is normal.

Test case code

fn test_remove_sign_rotate_sign() {
let mut keys = simulate_keygen(2, 5);
let offline_sign = simulate_offline_stage(keys.clone(), &[1, 2, 3]);
simulate_signing(offline_sign, b"ZenGo");
simulate_dkr_removal::<{ M_SECURITY }>(&mut keys, [1].to_vec());
let offline_sign = simulate_offline_stage(keys.clone(), &[1, 3, 4]); // index 1 has been removed
simulate_signing(offline_sign, b"ZenGo");
simulate_dkr_removal::<{ M_SECURITY }>(&mut keys, [1, 2].to_vec());
let offline_sign = simulate_offline_stage(keys, &[3, 4, 5]);
simulate_signing(offline_sign, b"ZenGo");
}

opened by jacksoom 0
• #### write a test with multiple refresh cycles

refresh is repeating operation - write a test with few consecutive refreshes. Make sure that each time the same joint public key is outputted not secret shares are not the same

opened by omershlo 0
• #### add new paillier keys to DKR

https://github.com/ZenGo-X/fs-dkr/blob/main/src/lib.rs#L71

As part of thee DKR we need each party to generate a new paillier keypair and broadcast it together with a proof of correctness (proof can be taken from: https://github.com/ZenGo-X/zk-paillier/blob/master/src/zkproofs/correct_key_ni.rs)

opened by omershlo 0
• #### What is the purpose of the local public key tpk_i?

What happens if we don't verify that $A_{0}^{(a)} = tpk_{(a)}^{old}$ in step 2 of the FS-DKR protocol?

Also why does $tpk$, the group public key stay the same from FS-DKG to FS-DKR?

opened by saiakilesh 1
• #### Replace proof of fairness with a PDL with Slack proof from GG18/20

This utilizes the PDL With Slack ZK proof from GG18/20 (https://github.com/ZenGo-X/multi-party-ecdsa/tree/master/src/utilities/zk_pdl_with_slack) and uses range-proofs from https://github.com/ZenGo-X/multi-party-ecdsa/pull/145 to validate it. Also added a check for the moduli size to make sure it's ~2048 bits.

I still need to update the Readme to remove any mention of the fairness proof

opened by elichai 0
• #### Assert that t <= n/2 and add examples to the readme

This adds an assertion of the assumption that t <= n/2 to RefreshMessage::distribute. And adds documentation on how to replace refresh the keys or replace a party

opened by elichai 0
• #### dlog proofs bug

Currently we follow multi-party-ecdsa logic of two dlog proofs see here: https://github.com/ZenGo-X/fs-dkr/pull/17/files#diff-386a609f746d74ecbc3e04d7ae0e82e2e7a58a72a16908d2fbbb955b9d355971R73

There is a bug in this logic, as can be explained and fixed here: https://github.com/ZenGo-X/multi-party-ecdsa/pull/145#issuecomment-953734674

please apply the same fix here as well

opened by omershlo 1
• #### Existing Parties DLog proof

Existing parties should submit their dlog proof as well (currently it's a bit cumbersome, as the LocalKey does not save the proofs and the secret is not available anymore later).

opened by tudorcebere 0
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