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Can you illuminate what uses public randomness has in cryptography? If I think about it, I can come up with some. But they seem pretty niche relative to secret
by btilly 1y ago
Can you illuminate what uses public randomness has in cryptography?
If I think about it, I can come up with some. But they seem pretty niche relative to secret keys.
- dist-epoch 1y agoSome crypto algorithms need some random data in their construction. Typically "nothing up my sleeve" random numbers are used - digits of pi, sqrt(2), ...