SoK: Public Randomness

ePrint Report: SoK: Public Randomness

Alireza Kavousi, Zhipeng Wang, Philipp Jovanovic

Public randomness is a fundamental component in many cryptographic protocols and distributed systems and often plays a crucial role in ensuring their security, fairness, and transparency properties. Driven by the surge of interest in blockchain and cryptocurrency platforms and the usefulness of such component in those areas, designing secure protocols to generate public randomness in a distributed manner has received considerable attention in recent years. This paper presents a …

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