Remove confusion about why channels are authenticated; it is for iden…

…tifying misbehaving parties (#463) * remove confusion about why channels are authenticated; it is for identifying misbehaving parties * Update draft-irtf-cfrg-frost.md Co-authored-by: Christopher Wood <[email protected]> --------- Co-authored-by: Chelsea Komlo <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Deirdre Connolly <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Christopher Wood <[email protected]>
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@@ -1249,7 +1249,9 @@ that performs key generation (see {{dep-vss}}) or through a distributed key gene
 
 Note that the Coordinator is not trusted with any private information and communication
 at the time of signing can be performed over a public channel, as long as it is
-authenticated and reliable.
+reliable. To give the guarantee of identifying misbehaving
+signers, the network channel should be additionally authenticated;
+see {{abort}} for more discussion.
 
 FROST provides security against denial of service attacks under the following assumptions: