[clug] "League of Entropy" and 'drand' - anyone heard of it, using it?

[Kim Holburn]

Generating entropy can be difficult on headless systems.  I used to used a debian package that generated entropy from the sound card, I've forgotten its name.  

Whatever way you do it, getting entropy from the network is not considered a good idea.  It could be potentially compromised.  

If entropy is seriously needed then perhaps you should consider a hardware card.

> On 2019/Aug/08, at 2:18 pm, steve jenkin via linux <linux at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 
> This seems a big deal to me for some public, transparent and auditable processes - not just “Lotteries”.
> 
> With so many Linux boxes out there with the Intel CPU hardware RNG added into /dev/random,
> this could be very widely sourced and difficult to compromise.
> 
> 
> Anyone:
> 	Examined it?
> 	Using it?
> 	Running a node?
> 
> s
> 
> ===============
> 
> League of Entropy: Not All Heroes Wear Capes
> June 2019
> <https://new.blog.cloudflare.com/league-of-entropy/>
> 
>> The League of Entropy provides public randomness that any user can retrieve from leagueofentropy.com.
>> <https://leagueofentropy.com/>
>> Users will be able to view the 512-bit string value that is generated every 60 seconds. 
>> Why 60 seconds? No particular reason. 
>> Theoretically, the randomness generation can go as fast as the hardware allows, but it’s not necessary for most use cases. 
>> Values generated every 60 seconds give users 1440 random values in one 24-hour period.
> 
> ===============
> 
> 
> Drand - A Distributed Randomness Beacon Daemon
> <https://github.com/dedis/drand>
> 
> Drand slideshow, 15 slides + notes.
> <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1t2ysit78w0lsySwVbQOyWcSDnYxdOBPzY7K2P9UE1Ac/edit#slide=id.p>
> 
>> Distributed, bias-resistant, unpredictable and publicly verifiable randomness
>> Nicolas GAILLY, 2018
> 
> 
> ===============
> 
> League of Entropy
> <https://leagueofentropy.com/>
> 
> [redirects for me to Cloudfare]
> <https://www.cloudflare.com/leagueofentropy/>
> 
> At time of writing, “Index” is 92885.
> These seem to be stored and retreivable
> 
>> Randomness Retrieval and Verification
>> 
>> To retrieve and verify the latest random value using the experimental configuration, install Golang v1.11+, set your GOPATH, and execute:
>> 
>> go get -u github.com/dedis/drand 
>> cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/dedis/drand 
>> go build 
>> ./drand get public deploy/190604/group.toml
> 
> 
> ===============
> 
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