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Description

This package implements interfaces to access the NIST Randomness Beacon through its REST web service API. The beacon is currently at https://beacon.nist.gov/home, and its implementation is documented at http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/ct/nist_beacon.cfm

Details

The service returns an XML document with several pieces of information:

• The (seed) value represented as a 64 byte (512-bit) hex string value, and its timestamp

• The SHA-512 hash value for the previous record as a 64 byte hex string

• A digital signature (RSA) computed over (in order): version, frequency, timeStamp, seedValue, previousHashValue, errorCode. Note: Except for version, the hash is on the byte representations and not the string representations of the data values

• The SHA-512 hash of the signature as a 64 byte hex string

• The service version and its update frequency

• The status of the response

jmcastagnetto/nistrb documentation built on May 19, 2019, 1:52 p.m.