From 302f6964757ea03fc54776b3298b4c64d2a60304 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Froman <beardog@firemail.cc>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 11:23:56 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] removed randomness beacon stuff

---
 .gitmodules             |  0
 onionr/communicator2.py |  1 -
 onionr/core.py          |  1 -
 onionr/onionrutils.py   | 23 -----------------------
 4 files changed, 25 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 .gitmodules

diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/onionr/communicator2.py b/onionr/communicator2.py
index 0bce1511..bddb21da 100755
--- a/onionr/communicator2.py
+++ b/onionr/communicator2.py
@@ -82,7 +82,6 @@ class OnionrCommunicatorDaemon:
 
         # daemon tools are misc daemon functions, e.g. announce to online peers
         # intended only for use by OnionrCommunicatorDaemon
-        #self.daemonTools = onionrdaemontools.DaemonTools(self)
         self.daemonTools = onionrdaemontools.DaemonTools(self)
 
         self._chat = onionrchat.OnionrChat(self)
diff --git a/onionr/core.py b/onionr/core.py
index 0219a875..017b4313 100644
--- a/onionr/core.py
+++ b/onionr/core.py
@@ -678,7 +678,6 @@ class Core:
         '''
 
         retData = False
-
         # check nonce
         dataNonce = self._utils.bytesToStr(self._crypto.sha3Hash(data))
         try:
diff --git a/onionr/onionrutils.py b/onionr/onionrutils.py
index dbcf01e6..e06c1e27 100644
--- a/onionr/onionrutils.py
+++ b/onionr/onionrutils.py
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ import nacl.signing, nacl.encoding
 from onionrblockapi import Block
 import onionrexceptions
 from onionr import API_VERSION
-from defusedxml import minidom
 import onionrevents
 import pgpwords, onionrusers, storagecounter
 if sys.version_info < (3, 6):
@@ -653,28 +652,6 @@ class OnionrUtils:
             retData = False
         return retData
 
-    def getNistBeaconSalt(self, torPort=0, rounding=3600):
-        '''
-            Get the token for the current hour from the NIST randomness beacon
-        '''
-        if torPort == 0:
-            try:
-                sys.argv[2]
-            except IndexError:
-                raise onionrexceptions.MissingPort('Missing Tor socks port')
-        retData = ''
-        curTime = self.getRoundedEpoch(rounding)
-        self.nistSaltTimestamp = curTime
-        data = self.doGetRequest('https://beacon.nist.gov/rest/record/' + str(curTime), port = torPort)
-        dataXML = minidom.parseString(data, forbid_dtd = True, forbid_entities = True, forbid_external = True)
-        try:
-            retData = dataXML.getElementsByTagName('outputValue')[0].childNodes[0].data
-        except ValueError:
-            logger.warn('Failed to get the NIST beacon value.')
-        else:
-            self.powSalt = retData
-        return retData
-
     def strToBytes(self, data):
         try:
             data = data.encode()