Friday, August 24, 2012

[olerrmxi] Trust and uniform randomness

A uniformly randomly selected person can very likely be trusted, for certain things.  The failure happens when non-trustable adversaries attempt to game the system, to be selected more often than uniformly randomly.

There is value in being able to select a person uniformly randomly.  Perhaps a government resource or a private enterprise.

Privacy is a concern.   Usually, you only want selection from a subset of the population, so privacy of who is a member of the subset.

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