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MuSig2: Simple Two-Round Schnorr Multi-Signatures

n signers, all of them, produce one Schnorr signature that verifies under one aggregated key. Two rounds, and concurrent sessions are in the security claim. This is n-of-n, not a threshold. It is the multi-signature Bitcoin-style schemes reached for.

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Authors: Jonas Nick, Tim Ruffing and Yannick Seurin
Date: 2020
Publisher: Jonas Nick, Tim Ruffing and Yannick Seurin
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Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0104
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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Nick, J., Ruffing, T., & Seurin, Y. (2020). MuSig2: Simple Two-Round Schnorr Multi-Signatures. Jonas Nick, Tim Ruffing and Yannick Seurin. https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1261

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@techreport{musig22020,
  title = {MuSig2: Simple Two-Round Schnorr Multi-Signatures},
  author = {Jonas Nick, Tim Ruffing and Yannick Seurin},
  year = {2020},
  institution = {Jonas Nick, Tim Ruffing and Yannick Seurin},
  url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1261},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/musig2}
}

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