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Decentralised Random Number Generation

Cryptography and Security 2018-07-25 v1

Abstract

Decentralised random number generation algorithms suffer from the Last Actor Problem, in which the last participant to reveal their share can manipulate the generated random value by withholding their share. This paper proposes an encrypted share threshold scheme which prevents this attack.

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@article{arxiv.1807.09225,
  title  = {Decentralised Random Number Generation},
  author = {Peter Robinson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.09225},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

One page long abstract submitted and accepted for 2nd Symposium on Distributed Ledger Technology, Gold Coast, Australia

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