alt Hacker NewsNIST has operated public random beacon since at least 2013, and League of Entropy has operated distributed beacon from 2019.
Public randomness does have uses in cryptography, crypto is not only secret keys.
NIST has operated public random beacon since at least 2013, and League of Entropy has operated distributed beacon from 2019.
Public randomness does have uses in cryptography, crypto is not only secret keys.
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.