CU Randomness Beacon

64 pointsposted 7 months ago
by wello

11 Comments

grokgrok

7 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!

Cshelton

7 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

7 months ago

Ah, another randomness beacon! Although I wish it used the same API as NIST's beacon, either the v1 or v2 API.

user

7 months ago

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wuiheerfoj

7 months ago

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

ribcage

7 months ago

Things like these are absolutely idiotic. Every single computer, be it a laptop or desktop or a phone, are able to produce randomness. Why in the hell would you trust a random website?

ntnsndr

7 months ago

A use case for a blockchain?