[4949] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Bridge
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Olsen)
Wed Jun 23 23:01:26 1999
To: bram <bram@gawth.com>, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Jun 1999 22:08:45 PDT."
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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 06:11:32 -0700
From: Alan Olsen <alano@summanulla.pcx.ncd.com>
> > There are 52! bridge hands, so a random hand has
> > log2(56!) = 226 bits of entropy or 68 decimal digits worth. Are they
> > generating that much entropy per hand now? If so, how?
>
> Generating that much entropy would be pointless. All that's needed is
> enough entropy to be unguessable in the seed and a cryptographically
> secure pseudo raandom number generator.
Until someone determines how to play Quantum Bridge... ]:>
