%C Vienna, Austria
%X 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.
%O This version is the author-accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
%I IEEE
%K Measurement, Manifolds, Proof of stake, Protocols, Scalability, Voting, Vectors
%J Proceedings - 9th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, Euro S and P 2024
%L discovery10198742
%P 216-234
%D 2024
%T SoK: Public Randomness
%A Alireza Kavousi
%A Zhipeng Wang
%A Philipp Jovanovic
%V 2014
%B Proceedings - 2024 IEEE 9th European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P)