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Episode 74: Blockchain 101: Randomness and Random Beacons with Justin Drake
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58 minutes
Released:
Apr 24, 2019
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Podcast episode
Description
In this week's episode, we sit down with Justin Drake (https://twitter.com/drakefjustin), researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, to discuss randomness in blockchain, how it can be created and what adversarial models exist. We also discuss the random beacon and how that concept has evolved in the development of ETH2.0
Our initial definition of randomness in cryptography comes largely from this article by cloudflare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/randomness-101-lavarand-in-production/
Check out Justin Drake's DevCon 4 talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqL_cMlPjOI with the slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VKBMcEMaY6PQjDJK4yAFtxn0vD41eYXW05YA3vdTBsI/edit.
Explore vdfresearch.org (https://vdfresearch.org/) for more on the topic of VDF
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Our initial definition of randomness in cryptography comes largely from this article by cloudflare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/randomness-101-lavarand-in-production/
Check out Justin Drake's DevCon 4 talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqL_cMlPjOI with the slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VKBMcEMaY6PQjDJK4yAFtxn0vD41eYXW05YA3vdTBsI/edit.
Explore vdfresearch.org (https://vdfresearch.org/) for more on the topic of VDF
If you like what we do:
Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm)
Join us on Telegram - https://t.me/joinchat/B_81tQ57-ThZg8yOSx5gjA
Support our Gitcoin Grant - https://gitcoin.co/grants/38/zero-knowledge-podcast
Support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge
Or directly here:
ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a
BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz
ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ
Released:
Apr 24, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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