Create a TSS testing tool (BEAVER)

[lpetrovic05]

The job of the testing tool would be to simulate multiple participants in a TSS protocol, since a single participant cant do much without messages from other participants.

Key details about the tools:

• It should be flexible, so that it can be used by all TSS tests
• We should be able to specify which participants will be doing what. We might optimize for shorter tests by not simulating all participants fully, or test absent participants.
• It should support concurrent execution for CPU intensive stages.
• This tools should be fully deterministic
• It should support inserting bad participants
• It should do the following tasks:
  • Generating or taking as input a participant directory
  • Generating or loading encryption keys for participants
  • Executing TSS message generation on specified participants
  • Distributing TSS messages
  • Executing the TSS message crunching (obtaining shares and ledger)
  • Using the data obtained from participants for validation

[timo0]

Benchmarking Environment for Analytical Verification and Error Reporting

[lpetrovic05]

Maybe this task should only cover TSS genesis, and a subsequent can cover re-keying