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Couldn't one just change the date/time on their machine? Please explain how this won't work.
by ranger_danger 4y ago
Couldn't one just change the date/time on their machine? Please explain how this won't work.
- m-p-3 4y agoI believe this depends on some blockchain, and you can't move forward without a consensus from a majority of nodes.
- h0h0h0h0111 4y agoIt's not consensus per se - each node releases a share of a secret and if any node gains a threshold number of shares, they can use interpolation to generate the signature and thus the randomness. Different nodes could even collect a different set of shares to reach the threshold and they'd still generate the same signature
- endorphine 4y agoTo clarify: there's no blockchain involved.
- h0h0h0h0111 4y agoRound numbers are tied to a date time in a loose sense that each participant should be emitted a share for every time period since the genesis. A single node emitting its shares early or late wouldn't affect the network - only a threshold number of nodes doing so