Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by printf_kek0 3063 days ago
> deterministic source of randomness

There is a manifest contradiction here created by this choice of words.

2 comments

IIRC It is entirely deterministic, if all parties are in cahoots with each other and sharing their secrets. But, if they are not, then it is effectively a non-deterministic random.
A coin flip is deterministic if you know its initial conditions and environment with sufficient precision. Deterministic cryptographic primitives can similarly be viewed as random, from the perspective of an observer who doesn't know the relevant secrets.