NOTE: RFC 2777 has been superceded by RFC 3797. This service has been discontinued.
For an online implementation of RFC 3797 please see Verifiable Random Selection (RFC 3797).
This form lets you run the RFC2777 algorithm (source code publicly available in the RFC itself) through a Web interface. It's an online 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.
Author: Daniel Dardailler danield@w3.org.
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