[90976] in Cypherpunks
Re: FCPUNX:Internet Casinos
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Wed Nov 26 16:26:13 1997
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 12:29:40 -0800
To: Sal Denaro <sal@panix.com>, Steve Schear <schear@lvdi.net>
From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: Filtered Cypherpunks List <cypherpunks@toad.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.94.971126134625.27783A-100000@panix3.panix.com>
Reply-To: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
At 01:49 PM 11/26/1997 -0500, Sal Denaro wrote:
>If you can't see the tables, how do you know the games aren't rigged?
There's a lot of cryptography work addressing this problem,
with variants like "Mental poker". You can do things like have
the participants each
- pick a random number,
- share the hash of their numbers with each other,
- then share the random numbers with the casino
- then XOR everybody's random numbers together to feed the
casino's card shuffler
- play the game, lose the money
- casino reveals its random number
- everybody compares hashes to verify that it was honest
>And do they offer Wayne Newton over streaming Video?
I'm sure that can be arranged :-)
> What about free drinks?
By Fedex.
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, stewarts@ix.netcom.com
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