[155003] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Saku Ytti)
Thu Jul 19 03:34:34 2012
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:33:50 +0300
From: Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <1342674993.6281.674.camel@karl>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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.
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