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Re: What if you had a very good patent lawyer...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Gilmore)
Fri Jul 23 15:02:39 2010
To: Thierry Moreau <thierry.moreau@connotech.com>
cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-reply-to: <4C489FBB.5000700@connotech.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:59:50 -0700
From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
It's pretty outrageous that anyone would try to patent rolling barcoded
dice to generate random numbers.
I've been generating random strings from dice for years. I find that
gamers' 20-sided dice are great; each roll gives you a hex digit, and
anytime you roll a 17 thru 20, you just roll again. One die will do;
you just roll it as many times as you need hex digits.
Presumably pointing a camera at ordinary dice could automate the data
collection -- hey, wait, let me get my patent lawyer!
John
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