Our final Gordian Developers Meeting of the year occurred on December 3, 2025. It had two parts: a presentation on “Learning FROST” based on our new course and a demo of using Hubert for decentralized FROST key generation and signing.

Media

Video:

Presentation Slides

Learning FROST:
Hubert & FROST:

For more, also see the transcript.

Key Quotes

Quotes are drawn from transcript and may not be entirely precise as a result, but convey many of the major themes of the meeting. See the video for more.

“The private key never exists anywhere, literally. It’s just that the key shares being combined for a particular signature in a particular session create the signature without the private key ever existing.”
—Wolf McNally

“Everything that Hubert places into the network is indistinguishable from noise.”
—Wolf McNally

“Your dead drop could be anywhere in the universe in volumes the size of a house.”
—Wolf McNally (on ARID scale)

“We just demonstrated it works. You can do this. It is feasible. What we need is for you to go out and communicate to the rest of the world that, yes, this is possible.”
—Christopher Allen

Key URLs