[410] in Cypherpunks
Re: Random numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Kennaway)
Wed May 19 12:06:58 1993
Date: Wed, 19 May 93 16:56:50 BST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: jrk@information-systems.east-anglia.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway)
Fallen Angel writes:
>Wouldn't it be ppossible to apply the Mafia-numbers-game solution?
>i.e. For your numbers (or seed for a large volume of numbers) take
>a random pubically accessible number like the last 3 digits of the
>attendance of a sporting event.
>
>I have never seen any formalizations, but that type of number should be
>as close to totally random as possible.
How do you know that these numbers aren't already in use as a code system,
under the control of someone who may not have your interests at heart?
Mafia numbers indeed!
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