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Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net> Wed, 31 May 2023 18:13 UTC

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Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 14:12:56 -0400
From: Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net>
To: Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com>, eligibility-discuss@ietfa.amsl.com
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Though Donald is concerned about obtaining adequate entropy for this purpose, I am not. As you say, sources exist.  (Indeed, this could be an application of various distributed consensus systems, though some of us might be loathe to use them for even this purpose.)

On Wed, May 31, 2023, at 14:09, Rob Sayre wrote:
> Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net> wrote:
>> That's flaw 1 in Paul's draft: insufficient entropy.
>> Flaw 1b is that D is described as a number, but a
>> byte sequence is better and what it really is anyway.
>
> This sounds like a use case drand / "The League of Entropy" is supposed 
> to help with, but I've never used it, and can't speak to its quality 
> (although it certainly seems solid).
>
> https://drand.love
>
> Here's what it outputs:
>
> Latest Randomness
> ----
> Here's the latest random value that was generated, round #3004181:
> de9a71d9ece82657fe7e77ce45889466d4a73ca9b7bf95ab8748dd47711fe980
> The next randomness is expected in 2 seconds.
>
> thanks,
> Rob

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