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Re:Librandombytes – a public domain library for generating r... by beardog on Thursday January 26, 2023 @05:16PM (#34539671)
If your values don't need to be secret, you can use the latest bitcoin header.[1]

Similar to centralized random beacons like the NIST[2] and Chile beacons.

1: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1015.pdf

2: https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/interoperable-randomness-beac...

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Re:Librandombytes – a public domain library for generating r... by treis on Friday January 27, 2023 @05:31PM (#34552772)
Why would one need randomness that isn't secret?
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Re:Librandombytes – a public domain library for generating r... by beardog on Saturday January 28, 2023 @04:00AM (#34556251)
Verifiable lotteries and time stamping are the use cases I am aware of.
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