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Re: [Cryptography] [cryptography] NIST Randomness Beacon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew cooke)
Sun Nov 10 04:21:49 2013
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Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 05:15:33 -0300
From: andrew cooke <andrew@acooke.org>
To: "d.nix" <d.nix@comcast.net>
In-Reply-To: <527F0B61.7060700@comcast.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@cpunks.org, cryptography@metzdowd.com,
"cryptography@randombit.net" <cryptography@randombit.net>
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the idea of a service that provides data unknown before a certain date (like a
photo of a recent newspaper) was suggested here -
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/08/29/info/
for fun, i implemented that here - http://colorlessgreen.net/ (the random
value is updated every 50000 secs, roughly, and encoded as a "memorable
phrase")
of course, in this case, a PRNG was used, and i am not NIST (so i am not
guaranteeing unpredictability ot autonomy to the same extent!), and the output
is only ~50 bits in size.
as far as i know, no-one uses it for anything...
andrew
On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 08:28:17PM -0800, d.nix wrote:
>
> surely someone here has an opinion...
>
> http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/ct/nist_beacon.cfm
>
> :-)
>
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