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Also ensuring the legitimacy of the random process (which is not really about technical features, but about social consensus): just how much easier is to claim

Also ensuring the legitimacy of the random process (which is not really about technical features, but about social consensus): just how much easier is to claim a PRNG (or a rabbit that chooses a box, or paper slips inside cookies) is rigged.

gen220 6y ago
Yep! For a modern day example, there's a famous conspiracy [1] the Champions League draw, which involves pulling balls from a bin, that certain balls are warmed or cooled so that the ball-chooser knows to draw them in a certain round. They could rid themselves of this conspiracy by randomly selecting the ball-drawer (instead of using a paid random ex-footballer), but they don't. :) [1]: https://www.eurosport.com/football/champions-league/2015-2016/sepp-blatter-claims-european-draws-fixed-with-hot-and-cold-balls_sto5647083/story.shtml https://www.eurosport.com/football/champions-league/2015-201...