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Can I Prove That I Have Used A Random Number Generator?

Meet Verifiable Random Functions (VRFs)

Okay, let’s say you have a lottery, and I think you are cheating. I believe that the numbers you are generating are not random. So can I get you to prove that you are truly generated random numbers? For this, we take the seed of a random number and a private key, and feed these into a hash function. With…