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grokgrok · 2 months ago
Imagine the terrors of multiple government agencies synchronizing ID selection to an identical source of randomness. Congrats, you won jury duty, a tax audit AND selective service!
RainyDayTmrw · 2 months ago
One would want to use something like HKDF[1] to create derived values with domain separation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HKDF

Cshelton · 2 months ago
Sorry, can't help myself! The Ralphie running demo on the site is hilarious. Some say, you could just use Ralphie's actual runs from this past year, true randomness!
CaliforniaKarl · 2 months ago
Ah, another randomness beacon! Although I wish it used the same API as NIST's beacon, either the v1 or v2 API.
eadmund · 2 months ago
jebarker · 2 months ago
Interestingly NIST also has a large campus in Boulder. Maybe Boulder is the epi-center of randomness??
zefhous · 2 months ago
Then one could dynamically and randomly choose which randomness beacon to use! I like it.
lxgr · 2 months ago
Ideally you’d use all of them by mixing their outputs together.
wslh · 2 months ago
I recommend to also jump to "What is the Twine Protocol" [1] where they created a blockchain without a consensus layers because they have a level of trust in timestamps.

[1] https://docs.twine.world/twine-protocol-documentation

Octokat · 2 months ago
Skobuffs!
clncy · 2 months ago
The beacon to be guarded at all times by Ralphie??
spelunker · 2 months ago
The source of their randomness is interesting, as someone not well-versed in physics: https://random.colorado.edu/concepts/traceable-randomness

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wuiheerfoj · 2 months ago
Verifiable quantum randomness sounds interesting - https://drand.love is another verifiable randomness beacon, though using more traditional cryptography