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A fair amount of discussion on the trustworthiness of NIST's beacon in particular, or how someone in control of a single beacon could influence the results in s
by Zikes 12y ago
A fair amount of discussion on the trustworthiness of NIST's beacon in particular, or how someone in control of a single beacon could influence the results in some way, but what about the author's suggestion for using multiple beacons run and controlled by competing interests?
Would there be any value in having companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Yahoo each running their own such beacon?
Edit: A bit of a tangent: if one were to create their own beacon service as a toy project, what would be the expected guarantees? Would a typical webserver's built-in randomness suffice for creating the seed values? What about interruptions in service/availability? Are timestamp gaps acceptable, or should they be backfilled after a server downtime?
- tripzilch 12y agoUm, those are all basically American companies. You need a Russian one, a Chinese one, North Korea, Somewhere Middle-East, and one datastream you bought off the dark markets via Tor, produced by a rogue group of renegade hacker cypherpunks. If they turn out to be all colluding, you're living the wrong novel.