[145372] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: What if you had a very good patent lawyer...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Squier)
Sat Jul 24 12:51:42 2010
From: Bill Squier <groo@old-ones.com>
In-Reply-To: <201007230059.o6N0xoAe018465@new.toad.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:37:28 -0400
Cc: Thierry Moreau <thierry.moreau@connotech.com>,
cryptography@metzdowd.com
To: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
On Jul 22, 2010, at 8:59 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
> 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!
Too late.
http://gamesbyemail.com/DiceGenerator
-wps
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