Hello! Good news! The paper is finally online if you are interested to really go into the details 
If you have questions, want explainers about anything in particular, or any other comments, let us know.
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Hard to say. The design and integration of a full implementation is still being discussed.
However, the Crypto team is working on a canister interface that will allow to experiment with a test implementation. This should be ready soon™…
I have not looked too much into the details of drand. On the conceptual level they are similar. The most notable difference is that drand key shares are not encrypted. Also on the network / usage level they will be different. How far did you get with reading both? Happy to fill in any gaps.
Yes, @victorshoup’s work with Zama is independent. Rather than ‘bootstrapping’ into FHE, they are pushing the boundaries of FHE to allow it to happen onchain in a much more practical way. Very cool stuff.