Protocol Labs and Ethereum Foundation Team Up to Research Verifiable Delay Functions

Cointelegraph

Published Apr 22, 2019 01:03PM ET

Updated Apr 22, 2019 01:22PM ET

Protocol Labs and Ethereum Foundation Team Up to Research Verifiable Delay Functions

Filecoin owner Protocol Labs is collaborating with the Ethereum Foundation to develop a Verifiable Delay Function (VDF). The company announced the partnership in a blog post on April 19.

VDFs are a relatively new cryptographic primitive that can protect systems relying on the generation of (pseudo) random values from manipulation strategies or attack.

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