TY  - GEN
N1  - This version is the author-accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
SP  - 216
KW  - Measurement
KW  -  Manifolds
KW  -  Proof of stake
KW  -  Protocols
KW  -  Scalability
KW  -  Voting
KW  -  Vectors
PB  - IEEE
A1  - Kavousi, Alireza
A1  - Wang, Zhipeng
A1  - Jovanovic, Philipp
CY  - Vienna, Austria
TI  - SoK: Public Randomness
Y1  - 2024/08/22/
AV  - public
N2  - Public randomness is a fundamental component in many cryptographic protocols and distributed systems and often plays a crucial role in ensuring their security, fairness, and transparency properties. Driven by the surge of interest in blockchain and cryptocurrency platforms and the usefulness of such a building block in those areas, designing secure protocols to generate public randomness in a distributed manner has received considerable attention in recent years. This paper presents a systematization of knowledge on the topic of public randomness with a focus on cryptographic tools providing public verifiability and key themes underlying these systems. We provide concrete insights on how state-of-the-art protocols achieve this task efficiently in an adversarial setting and present various research gaps that may be of interest for future research.
EP  - 234
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSP60621.2024.00020
ID  - discovery10198742
ER  -