timelock.zone

While working on a private voting project for Nouns DAO, we realised that it would be very useful to have a time-lock service. We therefore developed two time-locked cryptography protocols, as well as the concept of a public time-locked encryption service.

Cryptography

The cryptographic protocols zk-TLCS and TLCS are described in a draft paper. A link to the paper can be found in this blog post.

timelock.zone public service

We are developing a unique cryptographic service, timelock.zone, based on the efficient and versatile TLCS protocol. The timelock.zone blockchain will be the first platform of its kind, enabling a future-oriented encryption service that promises secure data decryption until specific future times. Main features:

  • Public keys for periods far into the future will be publicly available;
  • Support for many cryptographic schemes;
  • Relies on trusted randomness (the Drand beacon) published by the League of Entropy;
  • The correctness and security of the scheme are guaranteed as long as a single party participating in the public key computation is honest;
  • No trusted setup.

So far, a testnet with limited functionality has been developed.

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