That makes sense, but I believe you can generate frost shards independently, which would allow multiple trusted parties to collaborate without ever seeing the full key. Of course, hand-off in such a way that no one has the whole key would also be a problem, but I think we have the basic tools

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On the technical side I'm sort of with you, on the workplace-psychology side I'm very much not. I think most companies of a pretty common sort would look at such a multi-sig setup and take a hard pass (having absorbed maybe15% of the argument).

And the hand-off as you say is trickly. I don't know how tight that can ever be. Pre-shard generation (first shards) someone sees (or can see) the nsec and that someone, for the rest of their life, cannot un-see it. And the shards will need to be revoked, refreshed and swapped out over time, which requires the nsec to do. And employees come and go. Thus the nsec is always going to be at risk of forever residing in multiple human brains, including potentially not nice brains.

Companies as relays, on the other hand, I do sort of like. Leaves everything to cloud IAM. Sort of analogous to Facebook profiles and Facebook pages.

If it’s engineered in such a way that the signers truly cannot join forces to recreate the nsec then that means the nsec must be considered lost to the sands of time. That freezes everything in state, and far as I can see that freezing in state creates more problems than it solves. I’m open to something along these lines, but I just can’t see daylight there yet.