[tor-dev] Distributed RNG Research

Jesse V kernelcorn at torproject.org
Wed Nov 23 20:41:30 UTC 2016


On 11/18/2016 10:30 AM, bancfc at openmailbox.org wrote:
> New research on Distributed RNGs is published: "Scalable Bias-Resistant
> Distributed Randomness"
> 
> eprint.iacr.org/2016/1067

Nice! There's also https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1015.pdf, which shows
that you can extract at least 32 bits of entropy from Bitcoin every 10
minutes. I chose this generator for my Onion Name System project.

-- 
Jesse

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