using "reserved" IPv6 space

Saku Ytti saku at ytti.fi
Thu Jul 19 07:33:50 UTC 2012


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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