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• bhhaskin 9y ago
  WARNING: DO NOT USE BEACON GENERATED VALUES AS SECRET CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEYS. So probably not a good idea.
  • foodstances 9y ago
    Using the values directly is not the same thing as feeding the values into a RNG.
    • kvakil 9y ago
      No, the reason you aren't supposed to use it to generate cryptographic keys is because it's public: so it effectively provides no (or nearly no) entropy. It's the same reason you shouldn't use the current time as a seed for a PRNG. NIST Beacon is more intended for things like lottery drawings, where you want to prove that you're generating the random numbers in an unbiased manner.
  • dboreham 9y ago
    For a few seconds I was thinking...Bacon.