I know it has no security impact in this case, but isn’t it odd a bunch of cryptographers would choose a weak PRNG seeded by the date for a task like this?
Even state lotteries back then used physical ping pong balls and a nothing-up-my-sleeve show after the evening news.
The prolonged conspiracy theories until this discovery make some sense… not having a ceremony around anything supposedly “random” is unexpected, even back in the 1990s.
Even state lotteries back then used physical ping pong balls and a nothing-up-my-sleeve show after the evening news.
The prolonged conspiracy theories until this discovery make some sense… not having a ceremony around anything supposedly “random” is unexpected, even back in the 1990s.