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:
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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:
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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 5 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
:-)
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