CRJul 6, 2018
Decentralised Random Number Generation
arXiv:1807.09225v1
Originality Incremental advance
AI Analysis
This addresses a security vulnerability in decentralized systems, such as blockchain or distributed computing, but appears incremental as it builds on existing threshold schemes.
The paper tackled the Last Actor Problem in decentralized random number generation, where the final participant can manipulate outcomes, by proposing an encrypted share threshold scheme that prevents this attack.
Decentralised random number generation algorithms suffer from the Last Actor Problem, in which the last participant to reveal their share can manipulate the generated random value by withholding their share. This paper proposes an encrypted share threshold scheme which prevents this attack.