1994-07-18 - Card Playing Protocol?
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From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1994-07-18 18:37:39 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 18 Jul 94 11:37:39 PDT
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From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 94 11:37:39 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Card Playing Protocol?
In-Reply-To: <199407170623.AA29265@world.std.com>
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(At a comms protocol
level there might always be a single server per game--I don't know
yet--but I would like to hide that sort of stuff from users.)
There's no need for a central server per game, even running on one of
the player's own machines. What is possible with crypto is completely
flat distribution of the simulation. The difference is profound. I
would suggest that all who don't understand this meditate upon coin
flipping protocols, the simplest flatly distributed simulation--here,
of a random number generator.
Eric
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- 1994-07-18 (Mon, 18 Jul 94 11:37:39 PDT) - Card Playing Protocol? - hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)