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A commitment scheme is a protocol where one party commits themselves to a secret value without revealing it. At a later point, the value can be revealed.

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Is there a cumulative commitment scheme?

One approach that may work is the following. You can represent the accumulated values as a polynomial, where the roots are equal to the messages: User $1$ creates a representation of $P_1(x)=(x-C(1) …
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How to fairly select a random number for a game without trusting a third party?

Good randomized commitments are based on discrete logarithms but you could construct one (with reasonable safeness) using a hash function by generating a large random value $a_i$ and then computing your …
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What type of hash functions provides non-malleability of hash digests?

Commitment functions should be at least hiding and binding, and in your case, you want non-malleable. Using a hash function as a commitment does require addition assumptions on the hash that are not …
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