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Excalidraw Keyshare Materials

Memo

Updated Excalidraw materials for explaining MPC private key share lifecycle: split, reshare, and combine/recovery.

Split

A private key is split into a 2-of-3 threshold set of shares. No single share is the private key.

Split one private key into shares

Reshare

Existing shares can participate in a resharing protocol to create a new share distribution. The underlying private key stays the same.

Reshare into a new distribution

Combine

A valid threshold number of new shares can combine to recover the original private key. This is a recovery/combine operation, not the normal signing path.

Combine new shares to recover the private key