Possibly linux@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoThe fediverse has more entropy than any centralized social media ever couldmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down18
arrow-up111arrow-down1message-squareThe fediverse has more entropy than any centralized social media ever couldPossibly linux@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squareGVasco@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoCould probably be used as a good random number generator, by using the state of the network at any given time, similarly to how cloudflare uses a wall of lavalamps to generate random numbers since the system is quite chaotic and unpredictable.
Could probably be used as a good random number generator, by using the state of the network at any given time, similarly to how cloudflare uses a wall of lavalamps to generate random numbers since the system is quite chaotic and unpredictable.