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PUBLICATIONS

A public randomness service

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Author(s)

Michael J. Fischer, Michaela Iorga, Rene Peralta

Abstract

We argue for the deployment of sources of randomness on the Internet for promoting and enhancing electronic commerce. We describe, in rough detail, our planned implementation of such a source.
Conference Dates
July 18-21, 2011
Conference Location
Seville, ES
Conference Title
International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2011)
Pub Type
Conferences

Download Paper

https://doi.org/10.5220/0003612604340438
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Keywords

Rabin's beacon, secure multi-party computation, interactive proofs.
Information technology and Data and informatics

Citation

Fischer, M. , Iorga, M. and Peralta, R. (2011), A public randomness service, International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2011), Seville, ES, [online], https://doi.org/10.5220/0003612604340438, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=916135 (Accessed October 22, 2025)

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Created July 20, 2011, Updated October 12, 2021
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