alt Hacker NewsCan 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.
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.
Some crypto algorithms need some random data in their construction. Typically "nothing up my sleeve" random numbers are used - digits of pi, sqrt(2), ...