CU Randomness Beacon

There are good uses for block-chain like things, even beyond sprinking in a mention to help raise grant funding, but the headline-grabbers have generally not been those...

Re: CU Randomness Beacon

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Post by tonnydourado » Tue, Jul 08, 2025, 8:30 AM UTC

laughs in Brazilian

Re: CU Randomness Beacon

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Post by ribcage » Tue, Jul 08, 2025, 10:57 AM UTC

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?

Re: CU Randomness Beacon

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Post by eadmund » Tue, Jul 08, 2025, 11:34 AM UTC

CaliforniaKarl wrote: post #3

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

NIST v2: https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/interoperable-randomness-beac...

Re: CU Randomness Beacon

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Post by zefhous » Tue, Jul 08, 2025, 1:08 PM UTC

CaliforniaKarl wrote: post #3

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

Then one could dynamically and randomly choose which randomness beacon to use! I like it.