Comment Comment by cperciva SighThe issue here is that we need a trusted source of "nothing up my sleeve" numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_up_my_sleeve_numberThis is why the RFC 3526 groups use primes derived from Pi: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3526I'm sure that it would be difficult to tamper with the results of lotteries held all over the world. But it's even harder to tamper with the value of Pi. parent cperciva 10 years ago
The issue here is that we need a trusted source of "nothing up my sleeve" numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_up_my_sleeve_number
This is why the RFC 3526 groups use primes derived from Pi: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3526
I'm sure that it would be difficult to tamper with the results of lotteries held all over the world. But it's even harder to tamper with the value of Pi.