-----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
