{ "info": { "author": "Hilary Mason", "author_email": "me@hilarymason.com", "bugtrack_url": null, "classifiers": [ "Development Status :: 3 - Alpha", "License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License", "Topic :: Utilities" ], "description": "NIST Randomness Beacon\n======================\n\nThis is a python module to simplify using the [NIST randomness beacon](http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/ct/nist_beacon.cfm), a public source of truly random numbers. \n\nFrom the project description:\n\n> The Beacon will broadcast full-entropy bit-strings in blocks of 512 bits every 60 seconds. Each such value is time-stamped and signed, and includes the hash of the previous value to chain the sequence of values together.\n\nUsing the python wrapper is easy. To generate a random number:\n\n b = Beacon()\n print b.last_record()['outputValue']\n \nThe Beacon object will cache the timestamp of the last call and use that for the basis of next() and previous() calls.\n \nThere's also a generator for convenience:\n\n for num in random_nums(3):\n print num['outputValue']\n\n(Note, as the documentation says, *WARNING: DO NOT USE BEACON GENERATED VALUES AS SECRET CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEYS.*)", "description_content_type": null, "docs_url": null, "download_url": "UNKNOWN", "downloads": { "last_day": -1, "last_month": -1, "last_week": -1 }, "home_page": "https://github.com/hmason/randomness_beacon", "keywords": "NIST randomness beacon random numbers", "license": "BSD", "maintainer": null, "maintainer_email": null, "name": "randomness_beacon", "package_url": "https://pypi.org/project/randomness_beacon/", "platform": "UNKNOWN", "project_url": "https://pypi.org/project/randomness_beacon/", "project_urls": { "Download": "UNKNOWN", "Homepage": "https://github.com/hmason/randomness_beacon" }, "release_url": "https://pypi.org/project/randomness_beacon/0.0.1/", "requires_dist": null, "requires_python": null, "summary": "A wrapper for the NIST randomness beacon, a source of true random numbers", "version": "0.0.1" }, "last_serial": 876366, "releases": { "0.0.1": [] }, "urls": [] }