Reference

Glossary

Term	Meaning
E3	Encrypted Execution Environment: a request-scoped confidential computation coordinated by Interfold.
Ciphernode	An operator participating in the distributed threshold layer for E3 key generation and decryption.
CiCo	Ciphernode Committee selected for a particular E3.
PVDKG	Publicly Verifiable Distributed Key Generation: committee members jointly generate key material with proofs that make the process checkable.
BFV	Brakerski–Fan–Vercauteren, the homomorphic encryption scheme used by Interfold’s current first-party FHE path.
FHE	Fully Homomorphic Encryption: computation directly over ciphertexts without first decrypting the private inputs.
Sortition	The verifiable ticket-scoring process used to rank eligible ciphernodes for committee selection.
tFOLD	Non-transferable ticket token representing an operator’s ticket balance.
Bond owner	Wallet that controls a ciphernode position’s FOLD and ticket collateral and receives protocol rewards.
Operator key	The online key used by the running node for protocol operations.