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Re: Randomness sources for the IETF 2015-2016 Nomcom Selection

2015-06-22 16:55:45
The US debt has many digits, and is published regularly by an agency
with a tradition of not fudging the data.  It's a perfectly reasonable
source of randomness.  It's a large number because the US is a large
rich country.

< troll >

as we seem to be using it wholesale, one might wonder to how many
reliable digits of precision it is reported.

randy, somewhat interested in entropy and randomness