[Cryptography] NIST Randomness Beacon
Philip Gladstone
pjsg-cryptography at nospam.gladstonefamily.net
Sun Nov 10 12:46:39 EST 2013
On 11/10/13 2:48 AM, jd.cypherpunks at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> surely someone here has an opinion...
>>
>> http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/ct/nist_beacon.cfm
>>
>> :-)
>>
> Sure. No trust in NIST no more.
> Thanks.
> --Michael
>
>
Indeed. Why would anyone believe that the output is unpredictable? For
all we know, they could have generated all the "random" values for the
next 20 years and already sold them to someone.
The only way of preventing this is to mix in something that really
cannot be known before the critical instant (DJIA, most recent spin on
20 roulette wheels at Caesar's Palace, etc).
Philip
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