bitcoin-random-oracle
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chr15m
chr15m
Use the Bitcoin network as an entropy source.
Use the Bitcoin network as an entropy source.
$ python bitcoin-random-oracle.py HOST:PORT i-am-a-random-seed --pretty
ad496d4b1a29d22cb6e5d76e70e43f9cd550feb3850596678f078bdb393dd811
9d972721ca4adec07ec4ffaf059b35fcb5aacf9fd9b7aae99e4f8cf4be0b9539
6d20cec73ebb2a1f4028729a157b40d6752f92c9663698fe548b04eec0b5b2ec
65218be18bc681f2872ebeae6694805c9d357909adca31b4c4d32a5aedbbdd66
05c31c91154f98e7255b9a3ab6ea63d46525d5dadbeebda093fad80e766ff9fe
d1b0226dd68694f074fe612873441bd6e808ecdabb83a4906f4c1af0f9d615a2
...
Or for basic usage instructions:
python bitcoin-random-oracle.py
Here is an insane thing to do:
mkfifo -m 0666 /tmp/insane-random-source
python bitcoin-random-oracle.py HOST:PORT i-am-a-random-seed > /tmp/insane-random-source
sudo rngd -r /tmp/insane-random-source
The strength of this as an entropy source is left as an exercise to the reader, but you probably shouldn't use this for anything real.
This is based on halfnode.
chr15m