Because there's no guarantees at all for anything at all for that site.
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Joshua Kingsolver Price <jprice...@ivytech.edu> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Something of a noob question, but what about random.org? Is there some > reason why this site isn't used by the cryptographically wise? It > seems that they already offer public entropy, and from a very good > source. Sure you still can't use it for keys, but you couldn't use ANY > public source for that, so what's the difference? > >> Message: 1 Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 05:15:33 -0300 From: andrew >> cooke <and...@acooke.org> To: "d.nix" <d....@comcast.net> Cc: >> cypherpu...@cpunks.org, cryptogra...@metzdowd.com, >> "cryptography@randombit.net" <cryptography@randombit.net> Subject: >> Re: [cryptography] NIST Randomness Beacon Message-ID: >> <20131110081533.gh24...@acooke.org> Content-Type: text/plain; >> charset=us-ascii >> >> >> the idea of a service that provides data unknown before a certain >> date (like a photo of a recent newspaper) was suggested here - >> http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/08/29/info/ >> >> for fun, i implemented that here - http://colorlessgreen.net/ (the >> random value is updated every 50000 secs, roughly, and encoded as >> a "memorable phrase") >> >> of course, in this case, a PRNG was used, and i am not NIST (so i >> am not guaranteeing unpredictability ot autonomy to the same >> extent!), and the output is only ~50 bits in size. >> >> as far as i know, no-one uses it for anything... >> >> andrew >> >> >> On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 08:28:17PM -0800, d.nix wrote: >>> >>> surely someone here has an opinion... >>> >>> http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/ct/nist_beacon.cfm >>> >>> :-) >>> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSg7KdAAoJEBt4bfGB1f9U770QAKaizwlAU1em/xtcjiJEPycs > pP+4suRMEf4xJyk5jR4sEBoWdTK9RsE0kaEgvXZ/3MkNTLoVBs8MxEhDh7z/QhW6 > VWtY29ZH4KAoXfozTMQ0cw1hpA3b5Pab3CcmcpDOYXo6v1um0tDkal8jrLSpDN11 > Prn+tUjC+uGeGnLJOizDpQgefDLYhm4GmcJT+g2kxbsYJ1D4pv6wWWNV596dcIvo > ScLOefQZr2ELTkCuqPzunKNAP00WCKXvBLB1YcsePaHtmFaIWJIr1Ul6R0ottmqz > 8Z3PCEH2/soi9D55uKDWX85TDjB9u/VU8fnbQYvfrz0eY/K1SSSRMnbF5KDBpAis > DAC9P3xFS322A+Jt3GgVeTP5BMsNdM1E1Q0Z+yrC+AJu3ONe8smSh/cXBzLZ5RCE > XVROV8fVJ9JORrdr+oz8YdpqEePsqf9vTVaHz+GW2RnsUi15rtHfyFLt4vm0zA44 > G+eivxbV7eIn27AEm1dMi6Ko/GGZsZumAQkm1DWsIyWmodDggJVOckrH+2litu3F > dUi/ok1xlDV5qvOhTkMOBD53fHfsh0J0BT0Ec5WXx2RQR/7H2KK8bk6rYLCaYQzW > Q1rI+a6jfj8CQz6a/Cen16OK7IMByQDpZ1J28v65Fu7lDkm3gVuJp8MvHsaNbHJo > uO1AKyRSJf5geqdLw3ob > =hS8R > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > cryptography mailing list > cryptography@randombit.net > http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
