[zapps-wg] Random Beacon Announcement

[Peter Todd]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 01:53:58PM -0600, Sean Bowe wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> I mentioned in another discussion that I wanted to announce the beacon
> in advance and publish it on the mailing list, signed, so that if I
> had attempted to adaptively choose amongst different beacons someone
> could demonstrate it by posting both signatures. I think this is good
> enough; your suggestion is interesting too!
> 
> The timestamp is just a harmless demonstration of defense in depth.
> Not including it might have suggested I couldn't; since it's cheap and
> easy, why not.

I think it's important that when you do what should be harmless
defence-in-depth measures, you make it clear that's what you're doing. It's
very common for people to read about measures like that and come away
mis-educated about what was actually accomplished, turning what should be a
harmless measure into a harmful one.

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