removed randomness beacon stuff

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)

onionr/core.py

@@ -678,7 +678,6 @@ class Core:
         '''
 
         retData = False
-
         # check nonce
         dataNonce = self._utils.bytesToStr(self._crypto.sha3Hash(data))
         try:

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()