Joe Touch <touch@xxxxxxx> wrote: > - treat Nomcom selection as something other than the securing of > international resources, and use a seed based on the message ID of the > first Nomcom announcement or such. Huh? That's entirely predictable by the nomcom chair. > - use a *true* source of entropy, such as quantum effects or energy > noise. Two alternatives, based on these two effects respectively, > already exist: That's not verifiable. Did you even read BCP10 and rfc3797? > http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/ct/nist_beacon.cfm > includes signed escrowed values from previous dates That would actually work, thank you for bringing it up.