Joe Touch <touch(_at_)isi(_dot_)edu> wrote:
> - treat Nomcom selection as something other than the securing of
> international resources, and use a seed based on the message ID of the
> first Nomcom announcement or such.
Huh? That's entirely predictable by the nomcom chair.
> - use a *true* source of entropy, such as quantum effects or energy
> noise. Two alternatives, based on these two effects respectively,
> already exist:
That's not verifiable.
Did you even read BCP10 and rfc3797?
> http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/ct/nist_beacon.cfm
> includes signed escrowed values from previous dates
That would actually work, thank you for bringing it up.