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NIST Interoperable Randomness Beacons
NOTICES This is a beta release of the 2.0 Version of the Beacon Service. The first release and data is available at: NIST Randomness Beacon (Version 1.0) May 17, 2024, between 6:30-10:00PM ET new pulses from the Beacon Service may be unavailable....
This prototype implementation generates full-entropy bit-strings and posts them in blocks of 512 bits every 60 seconds. Users submitting a request need to provide the pulse generation time in POSIX format (number of milliseconds since midnight UTC, January 1, 1970 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time for more information and http://www.epochconverter.com for an online time converter.) The data source schema for the NIST Beacon REST API described above can be viewed by clicking here.
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