How do I connect NIST Randomness Beacon to Lodol?

Authenticate NIST Randomness Beacon once from your workspace and every action and trigger it supports becomes available to drop into a workflow. There is no glue code to write or maintain.

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NIST Randomness Beacon

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Use the random values the US National Institute of Standards and Technology publishes, so a random choice can be proved rather than trusted. NIST publishes a fresh 512 bit value every minute, signs it, and leaves it on the public record forever, where anyone in the world can look it up. Announce in advance which minute's value a draw will use, then draw winners, audit samples or tie-breaks from it and hand out the link that lets anybody repeat the same draw and get the same answer. Read the value for any minute since July 2018, list a run of them for an audit trail, and check a value somebody published against NIST's own record. No account, no API key, no sign-up.

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Steps your workflow can run in NIST Randomness Beacon.

Get the latest random valueGet the random value NIST is publishing right now. It changes every minute, nobody can predict it before it appears, and it stays on the public record forever, so anyone can look up later what it was. Use it whenever a decision has to be random and has to be seen to be random.

Get the random value for a timeGet the random value that was on the public record at a particular moment. This is how a draw is settled after the fact: announce beforehand that you will use the value from, say, noon on Friday, then come back and read it. Because everyone can read the same value at the same address, nobody has to take your word for what it was.

Get a random value by its numberGet one exact value by the numbers NIST files it under. Every value belongs to a series and has a place in it, and every answer from the other actions here carries both, so this is how a value someone quoted in a report or a press release is read back without going through its time.

List the values published from a timeList the values NIST published from a moment onward, in order. One a minute, so ten of them is ten minutes of the record and sixty is an hour. Use it to keep an audit trail of a window that mattered, or to show a run of values around a draw rather than the single one it used. A run that reaches the present simply stops there and says so.

Draw from a listDraw entries out of a list using a random value NIST published, so the result can be checked by anybody rather than trusted. Pick winners of a prize draw, choose which orders to audit, or settle a tie. Each entry can be drawn only once. The answer carries the value used, where to read it on NIST's site, and the arithmetic in one sentence, which together are enough for someone else to arrive at the same picks from the same list.

Check a published valueCheck a value somebody published against NIST's own record. Give it the value and the time it was said to come from, and it reads that moment back from NIST and says whether they agree. When they do, it also confirms the value sits inside NIST's chain by reading back the value before it, which is what would catch a record altered after the fact.

Get NIST's signing certificateGet the certificate NIST signs its published values with: who it belongs to, who issued it, and how long it lasts. Every value names the certificate that signed it, so this is what an auditor who wants to verify the signatures themselves needs. Leave the field empty for the one NIST is signing with today.