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If a NIST scientist wanted a random sequence of digits to act as a seed, why wouldn't they just use a hardware random number generator to create them? Surely NI
by Johnny555 3y ago
If a NIST scientist wanted a random sequence of digits to act as a seed, why wouldn't they just use a hardware random number generator to create them? Surely NIST has some laying around, even back in the 1990's.
- jnwatson 3y agoIt comes down to transparency. How would an external observer tell that the RNG wasn't rigged?
- Johnny555 3y agoAs opposed to "I used a few random English words, but I'm not going to tell anyone what they were, good luck trying to guess them". Would it be less transparent to say "We combined the output of our hardware RNG at this site and one at another lab across the country to help eliminate bias, here's the two input strings, and here is the final string we came up with".