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Re:Timelock Encryption made possible and easy to use by m-p-3 on Monday August 15, 2022 @07:19PM (#32476849)
I believe this depends on some blockchain, and you can't move forward without a consensus from a majority of nodes.
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Re:Timelock Encryption made possible and easy to use by h0h0h0h0111 on Monday August 15, 2022 @09:09PM (#32478015)
It'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
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Re:Timelock Encryption made possible and easy to use by endorphine on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @02:53AM (#32479929)
To clarify: there's no blockchain involved.
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