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I’m worried about relying on remote servers for random numbers, especially for cryptographic purposes. There’s no way to verify that you aren’t the only person with access to those numbers, and it’s fairly difficult even as the sysadmin to ensure that they’re logged nowhere.
“oops our software had a bug that made it return nonrandom values for a month”
Context for those who don’t get it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cUUfMeOijg
int getRandomNumber() { return 4; // chosen by a fair dice roll. guaranteed to be random. }Wasn’t it a dice roll that decided that? 🤔
yeah, i copied the xkcd wrong 🤦♂️ thanks, i’ll edit it
Excuse me, I believe, you mean qu\ntumr\ndomnumbers. You see, it’s the Windows path equivalent of /dev/random.
Instead of returning a random number, what if we make the program guess?
What happened to bitcoin block hashes?
