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Comment by denton-scratch

2 years ago

> Even with a verifiably random key

What's a "verifiably random" key?

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pclmulqdq  2 years ago

"Verifiably random" means produced using a process where it isn't possible for you to know the outcome. In this case, saying "the key is [X], which is the SHA-2 hash of [Y]" would allow you to know that they couldn't choose [X] without breaking SHA-2.

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