package tezos-protocol-alpha
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Module Tezos_raw_protocol_alpha.Seed_repr
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Tezos Protocol Implementation - Random number generation
This is not expected to be a good cryptographic random number generator. In particular this is supposed to be used in situations where the seed is a globally known information.
The only expected property is: It should be difficult to find a seed such that the generated sequence is a given one.
Random Generation
The state of the random number generator
A random seed, to derive random sequences from
A random sequence, to derive random values from
type vdf_setup =
Tezos_protocol_environment_alpha.Vdf.discriminant
* Tezos_protocol_environment_alpha.Vdf.challenge
A VDF discriminant and challenge
type vdf_solution =
Tezos_protocol_environment_alpha.Vdf.result
* Tezos_protocol_environment_alpha.Vdf.proof
A VDF result, to derive a seed from
Compare only the first element of two vdf_solution, that are of Vdf.result
.
val verify :
vdf_setup ->
Tezos_protocol_environment_alpha.Int64.t ->
vdf_solution ->
bool option
initialize_new state ident
returns a new generator
take_int32 s bound
generates the next random value as a bounded int32
take_int64 s bound
generates the next random value as a bounded int64
Entropy
A nonce for adding entropy to the generator
Use a byte sequence as a nonce
Compute the hash of a nonce
check_hash nonce hash
is true if the nonce correspond to the hash
For using nonce hashes as keys in the hierarchical database
Returns a new seed by hashing the one passed with a constant.
initial_seeds n
generates the first n
seeds for which there are no nonces. The first seed is a constant value. The kth seed is the hash of seed (k-1) concatenated with a constant. If an initial_seed
is provided, the first seed is created using it as the first one.