Ask HN: NIST Randomness Beacon Interruption?

By hash0 · 2026-06-23 · 3 points · 0 comments

Gentlepeople, the NIST Randomness Beacon has seen an unannounced, unacknowledged outtage from pulse ID #1827762 (2026-06-11T16:57:00.000Z) to #1827763 (2026-06-22T17:03:00.000Z). I reached out to beacon@nist.gov (and via twitter/x.com) but got no reply whatsoever. Gemini ha…

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