RFC2777 Gateway Form (original) (raw)

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This form lets you run the RFC2777 algorithm (source code publicly available in the RFC itself) through a Web interface. It's anonline method for making random draw/selections in such a way that the unbiased nature of the choice is publicly verifiable (that is, repeatable).

To give you a simple example of the principle behind this: if you have to draw a coin publicly to make a public choice between 2 options, you can either :

This form does the same except it lets you order a list of values randomly, not just decide between 2 options, so it needs more sources and a hash function.



s Pool Size

1 Randomness Source #1

2 Randomness Source #2

3 Randomness Source #3


Author: Daniel Dardailler danield@w3.org.

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