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DKG
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Distributed Key Generation

A protocol where a group jointly generates a shared key such that no single party ever knows the full private key — it exists only as distributed shares from the moment of creation, with no dealer who ever held it whole. DKG (using VSS internally) is the backbone of threshold signatures, MPC wallets, distributed validators, and threshold decryption. The 'no single holder' guarantee holds only below a corruption/collusion threshold of participants.

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