Cloudflare’s new open-source project helps anyone obtain truly random numbers

guest · Jun 17, 2019

Cloudflare’s new open-source project helps anyone obtain truly random numbers
June 17, 2019
https://thenextweb.com/dd/2019/06/1...ect-helps-anyone-obtain-truly-random-numbers/

Randomness sits at the heart of everything we do online. Many encryption algorithms depend upon randomly generated numbers to work, and that’s just one example of many. But how random is random?
It’s teamed up with five other organisations — predominantly universities and security companies — to create The League of Entropy. It sounds corny, but it’s actually really technically interesting. And mercifully, it doesn’t involve any spandex.

One advantage of the League of Entropy’s approach is that it removes the potential for a single point of failure. In a hypothetical scenario, should researchers discover one flaw with a random number generator, the existence of the other four should mitigate against any potential exploitability.
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Cloudflare blog entry: League of Entropy: Not All Heroes Wear Capes
Technical deep-dive: Inside the Entropy
League of Entropy - Decentralized Randomness Beacon

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