Hi David, Can you give us more information about what you are doing? I'm getting curious about what problem you are working with that requires these conditions.
Steve > We have not discussed election results (votes per candidate), but those > are, ironically, really unsuitable for this, even though statistically > the final set of digits should have a lot of entropy. Mostly election > numbers are a problem because they may be revised for long periods after > the election, and the numbers could almost always be forced to shift by > a challenge by one of the candidates. Every recount will come up with a > slightly different result. Examples: the Coleman vs. Franken senatorial > contest in Minnesota, or Bush vs. Gore in Florida. > > So I'm leaning towards sports scores, as those are generated in full > view of a multitude of witnesses (often numbering in the millions). It > would be extremely difficult to rig the absolute final score. It might > be possible to rig the winner, or even the point spread, but to rig the > absolute score in a high scoring game like basketball, would be > exceedingly difficult, and would likely be obvious to even the casual > observer. To rig every digit in the final score of every game played on > a given day should be pretty close to impossible. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
