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Subject: Re: human failings question
From: Damien Miller (djmmindrot.org)
Date: Wed Oct 11 2000 - 20:06:10 CDT

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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