You can run the decryption locally. The code is on git. The bigger concern is that the League of Entropy will disband and delete their keys permanently.

FYI - this has used 33% of Cloudflare's daily free tier limit for workers since I posted this 3 hours ago.

Every pageview and API call is an invocation. You get 100,000 calls per day for free.

I'm not sure how intensive the "backend" is, but I've found stuff like workers to be economically efficient only for hobby tier projects.

I operate a BitTorrent tracker I wrote for fun, and it receives around ~1500req/s (100mil+ a day)

This would be ~US$18/day with CF workers, but costs me €3.8/mo on my VPS

Would love to know how

Yes, essentially. However, the 'pinky-promisers' are large, well-funded, geographically distributed organizations that have strong incentives, both in terms of reputation and operations, to keep their promise

Gotcha, at first I was expecting something that tried to rely on some kind of physical limitation or a property that the passage of time has.

That's a good point. Not sure how to do that right now

Some folks from Chainsafe looked into it a couple years ago: https://github.com/nulltea/zk-timelock. I'd love to see this work move forward.

You can ZK an XGBoost or neural net with https://github.com/zkonduit/ezkl

The whole point is that it's chaotic. Knowing the the approximate current state cannot be used to predict future states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory

> Knowing the the approximate current state cannot be used to predict future states

The reason these entropy sources are used is because there's no such thing as a perfectly random algorithm. If there's a way to remove the entropy from the system then the whole thing becomes pointless, and you may as well go back to using a pseudorandom algorithm. That's my point.

If you care this much about ensuring true randomness then I'd argue the security of the system should be a primary consideration – perhaps the primary consideration. If you can't guarantee that you're entropy source is random, then you can't be confident of the randomness of the system generally.

I'm not an expert on this though so if someone wants to explain why I'm wrong then please do so.

Pointing out one problem does not imply not caring about all other problems.

It just takes time

This is the best way to use email as a to-do list- configure your inbox to show unread emails on top then starred emails below. Then everything else.

That way starred emails are front and center instead of buried in another folder