[cryptography] NIST Randomness Beacon

CodesInChaos codesinchaos at gmail.com
Mon Nov 11 12:45:33 PST 2013


On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Natanael <natanael.l at gmail.com> wrote:
> Proof-of-work, just like Bitcoin itself uses for hashing?
No this idea isn't about proof of work. The idea is delaying the
computation result, preventing a miner from picking a value.
If the computation takes an hour on the fastest available computer and
isn't parallelizable, then a miner can't influence
the unpredictable value (unless they have 51%).

With slightly weaker security requirements iterating only a few
million times would be decent as well, since attempting to
influence the value would result in a performance hit a competitive
miner can't afford.



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