Re: [cryptography] NIST Randomness Beacon (andrew cooke) (and Andy Isaacson, et al.)

2013-11-13 Thread Joshua Kingsolver Price
-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,

Re: [cryptography] NIST Randomness Beacon (andrew cooke) (and Andy Isaacson, et al.)

2013-11-13 Thread Natanael
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