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Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Thu, 19 May 2016 20:34 UTC

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Subject: Re: 6man w.g. last call for <draft-ietf-6man-default-iids-11.txt>
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From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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On 19/05/2016 21:10, Alexandre Petrescu wrote:
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> So how to test whether it's random?

Answering your question in case anybody doesn't realise that it is rhetorical:

It is impossible (actually, meaningless) to test whether a single value is random.

1234 is a perfectly fine random decimal number. So 14159265358979323846.

0xE8039A3C677A is a perfectly fine random hexadecimal number. It might be
an Ethernet address. Or not.

   Brian

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