Could a truly random number be generated using pings to psuedo-randomly selected IP addresses?
- by _ande_turner_
The question posed came about during a 2nd Year Comp Science lecture while discussing the impossibility of generating numbers in a deterministic computational device.
This was the only suggestion which didn't depend on non-commodity-class hardware.
Subsequently nobody would put their reputation on the line to argue definitively for or against it.
Anyone care to make a stand for or against. If so, how about a mention as to a possible implementation?