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Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space


From: Saku Ytti <saku () ytti fi>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:33:50 +0300

On (2012-07-19 15:16 +1000), Karl Auer wrote:

True. But you cannot tell, from a sample of one number, whether that
number was chosen randomly. You can only test it statistically within a
series. A particular number may be random in one sequence, non-random in
another.

RFC2777 deals with this problem to a degree. If you define algorithm and
define how to choose seed, then you can later verify that this particular
algorithm was used to generate the number.

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  ++ytti


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