Following up on this thread, if there are any objections to the
randomness sources at this time (after taking my clarifications into
consideration), please do let me know. I need to finalize this before
the deadline tomorrow to stick to the timeline.
thanks,
Lakshminath
Hi Lakshminath,
In light of your clarifications, I have no further objections.
Thanks
Suresh
Lakshminath Dondeti wrote:
Following up on this thread, if there are any objections to the
randomness sources at this time (after taking my clarifications into
consideration), please do let me know.
Thanks Suresh.
regards,
Lakshminath
(Speaking as nomcom chair in this thread)
On 7/5/2007 8:27 AM, Suresh Krishnan wrote:
Hi Lakshminath,
In light of your clarifications, I have no further objections.
Thanks
Suresh
Lakshminath Dondeti wrote:
Following up on this thread, if there are any
; Suresh Krishnan
Cc: ietf@ietf.org
Subject: Re: Nomcom 2007-8: Randomness Sources for review
Following up on this thread, if there are any objections to the
randomness sources at this time (after taking my clarifications into
consideration), please do let me know. I need to finalize this before
Hi Lakshminath,
I think these sources are reasonable. I just require some
clarification about the lottery numbers. From your examples, it was not
clear to me how the lottery numbers will be entered as inputs to the
3797 algorithm. The algorithm recommends that the numbers be sorted in
some
Thanks Suresh. Good question.
My intention is to enter the numbers as I included in my email (and as
they are published by the various sources). The source code in 3797
includes a sorting algorithm and that takes care of the randomness
algorithm requirements; there is also an example in
I was under the impression that the use of WSJ data was adopted
because it is easily verifiable and reproducable, after all there
exists a PRINTED copy of the newspaper for any given day. I am not
sure you could reproduce the national debt (for example) at a given
point in time if someone
Thanks Ole. You bring up a good point. I have taken it into
consideration before selecting the randomness sources. Lottery results
are archived for obvious reasons. It turns out the US Treasury
department makes the archive since 1993 available.
The archives are available at the following
