An Unbiassable Random Oracle for Blockchains
A.W. Roscoe, Pedro Antonino and Jonathan Lawrence
We introduce a new way of constructing a random oracle that generates a random number at chosen events — such as the generation of a new block — in a blockchain. We make fairly standard assumptions about the distribution of good and bad behaviour of contributing agents and do not require any dependably trustworthy player, internal or external. We give two variants on this oracle. These cannot be meaningfully biassed by any feasible coalition of bad agents, whether by their action or inaction.