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Random Standards Meaning

Random standards refer to the established protocols and mathematical guidelines used to ensure that random numbers used in cryptography are truly unpredictable. In a computer system, true randomness is difficult to achieve because software is inherently logical and deterministic.

Therefore, developers use standardized Pseudo-Random Number Generators (PRNGs) that have been vetted by the scientific community to ensure they contain no discoverable patterns.Compliance with standards like NIST SP 800-90A ensures that entropy (unpredictability) is gathered from physical sources, such as thermal noise or microscopic hardware fluctuations, before being processed into a seed for a generator. If a random standard is flawed-or contains a "backdoor"-an attacker could theoretically predict the private keys generated by a wallet, leading to the total theft of all funds held within it.In decentralized systems, creating "On-Chain Randomness" is a unique challenge because every node must reach the same conclusion for the network to remain in sync.

Technologies like Verifiable Random Functions (VRF) are used to provide randomness that is both unpredictable to outsiders and provably fair to auditors.

This is essential for applications like NFT mints, gaming, and validator selection, where a biased "random" number could lead to massive financial manipulation.

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