Overview

Advanced

Concept

The vetKeys feature is in ongoing development on ICP. It stands for ‘Verifiable Encrypted Threshold Keys’ and enables a number of cryptographic functionalities on ICP. The primary motivation for vetKeys is to facilitate on-chain encryption, as such the primer is focused with that example in mind.

To dive into the technical overview, please refer to:

• vetKeys technology overview.
• vetKeys primer.

Using vetKeys

As this feature is still in development, a brief demo for using the API exists.

References

• Forum post.
• The first Community Conversation.
• vetKeys primer to understand the crypto background.
• Research paper.