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