Title :
A public randomness service
Author :
Fischer, Michael J. ; Iorga, Michaela ; Peralta, Rene
Author_Institution :
Department of Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, U.S.A.
Abstract :
We argue that it is time to design, implement, and deploy a trusted public randomness server on the Internet. NIST plans to deploy a prototype during 2011. We discuss some of the engineering choices that have been made as well as some of the issues currently under discussion.
Keywords :
Cryptography; Noise; Electronic commerce; Electronic voting; Randomness server;
Conference_Titel :
Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT), 2011 Proceedings of the International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seville, Spain
