[7957] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: human failings question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Damien Miller)
Wed Oct 11 23:41:31 2000
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 12:06:10 +1100 (EST)
From: Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>
To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Crowley <paul@cluefactory.org.uk>,
Rick Smith <rick_smith@securecomputing.com>,
"Nina H. Fefferman" <feferman@math.princeton.edu>, coderpunks@toad.com,
cryptography@c2.net
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On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> not long after, camelot introduced a "random-ness" option: the POS
> computer would generate 6 random numbers _for_ you, if you so chose.
It would be interesting to find out how gaming machines generate their
"random" numbers. Do they use hardware of software?
There would be some interesting attack possibilities if they were to
use LCGs with small states, but surely they'd be smarter than that ;)
-d
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