19 Jul
2012
19 Jul
'12
3:33 a.m.
On (2012-07-19 15:16 +1000), Karl Auer wrote:
True. But you cannot tell, from a sample of one number, whether that number was chosen randomly. You can only test it statistically within a series. A particular number may be random in one sequence, non-random in another.
RFC2777 deals with this problem to a degree. If you define algorithm and define how to choose seed, then you can later verify that this particular algorithm was used to generate the number. -- ++ytti