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Comment by teravor | Hacker News Reader

I explicitly said

    > it becomes dangerous if they can preview the results or inspect the other sources

because the malicious source can just precompute the hash for the bias it wants.

You're assuming a hash preimage attack, which would be a complete break of the cryptosystem. (Your link only works on the toy implementation given.)

there is no preimage attack involved.

while you cannot take control over the hash output you can bias it because you have multiple tries. that's how bitcoin mining works too...

for cryptographic applications any bias can be engineered to be fatal in one way or another.