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A synchronous Distributed Key Generation protocol for front-running protection on public blockchains.

The distributed key generated by Ferveo can be input into a compatible threshold encryption/decryption or a threshold signature protocol. Ferveo distributes the shared private key by relative staking weight and relies on an underlying blockchain for synchonicity.

This library is under development and has not been reviewed, audited, or prepared for use.

Documentation can be found here. It is recommended to use mdbook to render the docs. Run mdbook serve in the book folder.

A preprint paper describing the construction of Ferveo and the novel cryptosystems used is available at IACR.

A Rust toolchain with version >= 1.87.0 is required. In the future, Ferveo will target the stable toolchain. Installation via rustup is recommended.

Run cargo build --no-default-features --release to build. Please note that performance may be significantly poorer when compiling in Debug mode.

Be sure to run cargo fmt --all locally before committing your changes. This will ensure that the code is formatted according to the project's style guidelines.

Run cargo test --no-default-features --release to run tests. Please note that performance may be significantly poorer when testing in Debug mode.

Run cargo bench --benches --no-default-features to run benchmarks. Benchmark report is available in the target/criterion/report folder.

NOTE: Benchmarks are optional (the benchmark CI job is disabled) and take quite some time (~10 mins)