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Voting is open until 25 Sept. See the leaderboard

Voter draw: 10 × ₹1,000

The draw’s fingerprint is published here before voting closes, and the draw runs after.

How the draw is made fair, and how to check it
  1. Before voting closed, the database picked a random 256-bit number (the seed) and published only its SHA-256 fingerprint.
  2. Every voter who verified their email is one entrant with one entry per verified vote. Test addresses and utsavmandal staff are left out.
  3. Each entrant has a public code: the first 12 characters of the SHA-256 of their voter key.
  4. For each code, u = (the first 52 bits of HMAC-SHA256(key = seed, message = code) + 0.5) ÷ 2^52, and the draw key = −ln(u) ÷ entries. The smallest keys win; the next are reserves.
  5. After the draw the seed is published with the full entry list, so anyone can check that SHA-256(seed) is the fingerprint and re-run the order.