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Universidad de Chile Co-founds the League of Entropy

Universidad de Chile has taken a pivotal role in co-founding the League of Entropy, an innovative global network that generates distributed randomness for secure cryptographic applications. The League, comprising various institutions, is driven by the drand protocol, an open-source project maintained by Randamu. drand (distributed randomness beacon) ensures the generation of verifiable and unpredictable random values, critical for applications like public lotteries and secure cryptographic keys.

Challenges

While contributing to the League of Entropy, Universidad de Chile faced a series of challenges:

• Natural Sources of Entropy: Leveraging seismic data as a natural source of randomness for the drand protocol required developing innovative techniques for extracting usable entropy.
• Integration Complexity: Incorporating this unique data source into the existing protocol architecture demanded careful software engineering to ensure compatibility and security.
• Cryptographic Assurance: Ensuring that randomness generated from seismic data met the cryptographic requirements posed an ongoing technical challenge.

Results

Despite the challenges, Universidad de Chile’s involvement has yielded significant results:

• Enhanced Security: The unique seismic-based entropy provides an additional layer of randomness that strengthens the overall security of the drand protocol.
• Global Contribution: Their participation reinforces the League's mission of maintaining a truly decentralized and globally accessible randomness service.
• Innovative Collaboration: Their expertise in natural data sources has brought forth new opportunities for research and practical implementation in cryptographic systems.

Summary

Through their pioneering collaboration with the League of Entropy, Universidad de Chile has enhanced global cybersecurity by utilizing seismic data as a reliable source of randomness. This achievement underscores the university's dedication to innovative research and positions them as a key player in the realm of cryptographic security.

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