NAME

NIST::Beacon - A Perl module for querying NIST's randomness beacon.

VERSION

version 1.001

SYNOPSIS

use NIST::Beacon;

my $beacon = NIST::Beacon->new;
my $record = $beacon->latest_record;

print "The latest sequence generated by the NIST beacon is: \n";
print $record->current, "\n";

DESCRIPTION

NIST::Beacon provides a perl interface to the REST API of the NIST randomness beacon.

Methods

latest_record

Returns a NIST::Beacon::Record object containing the latest record emitted by the NIST beacon. Returns undef if a network failure occurs.

previous_record(timestamp)

Returns a NIST::Beacon::Record object containing the record emitted immediately prior to the record emitted at timestamp. timestamp must be in Unix timestamp format. If no timestamp is given, the current time is assumed. Returns undef if a network failure occurs or no record exists.

current_record(timestamp)

Returns a NIST::Beacon::Record object containing the record emitted at timestamp. timestamp must be in Unix timestamp format. If no timestamp is given, the current time minus one minuted is assumed (to avoid querying a record that has not yet been generated). Returns undef if a network failure occurs or no record exists.

next_record(timestamp)

Returns a NIST::Beacon::Record object containing the record emitted immediately after the record emitted at timestamp. timestamp must be in Unix timestamp format. Returns undef if no timestamp is given or if the timestamp is in the future.

SEE ALSO

NIST::Beacon::Record

AUTHOR

William Woodruff <william@tuffbizz.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2014 by William Woodruff.

This is free software, licensed under:

The MIT (X11) License