multisignatures (multisigs) [English]
Syndetic Relationships
InterPARES Definition
No definition in earlier IP projects. ITrust definition not yet developed.
Other Definitions
- Bitcoin Glossary 2017 (†812 s.v. "Multisig" ): Multi-signature addresses allow multiple parties to partially seed an address with a public key. When someone wants to spend some of the bitcoins, they need some of these people to sign their transaction in addition to themselves. The needed number of signatures is agreed at the start when people create the address. Services using multi-signature addresses have a much greater resistance to theft.
- Bitcoin Group [2017] (†846 s.v. "Multisig"): Multi-signature addresses allow multiple parties to partially seed an address with a public key. When someone wants to spend some of the bitcoins, they need some of these people to sign their transaction in addition to themselves. The needed number of signatures is agreed at the start when people create the address. Services using multi-signature addresses have a much greater resistance to theft.
- Blockchain Technologies 2016 (†789 s.v. "Multi Signature" ): Multi-signature (multisig) addresses allow multiple parties to require more than one key to authorize a transaction. The needed number of signatures is agreed at the creation of the address. Multi signature addresses have a much greater resistance to theft.
- Multisignature 2017 (†795 ): A digital signature scheme which allows a group of users to sign a single document. Usually, a multisignature algorithm produces a joint signature that is more compact than a collection of distinct signatures from all users. Multisignature can be considered as generalization of both group and ring signatures.
- Seibold et al. 2016 (†821 p.18): An authentication function that allows a group of users to sign a single document with more than one private key.