[Cryptography] who cares about actual randomness?

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Thu Feb 6 00:01:42 EST 2014


On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 3:35 PM, John Denker <jsd at av8n.com> wrote:
> safeguards such as clear plastic boxes.
>   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7M3MSmooeM

Audits, randomness and strict process are all important and needed
of course, some of us probably work in gaming... yet the end result
of those efforts are more interesting...
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=powerball+winner

> Can you convince these people to trust a PRNG instead?

The employess, very likely. The auditors, less likely. Peer
and public pressure probably drives integrity in this arena
more than 'these people', perhaps in govt, would on their own.


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