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AI systems are breaking an internet that was designed at human-scale — by making it cheaper than ever to coordinate, transact, and generate voice, video, and text that are increasingly indistinguishable from human activity. We’re already beset w
A tutorial on the popular types of digital signatures used by blockchain systems, including ECDSA, Schnorr, and BLS. Foteini Baldimtsi (George Mason University) discusses the security definitions and differences between different types of signatures such as multi-signatures, threshold, group, ring, and blind signatures, as well as signature-related operations such as aggregation and pre-signing.