From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 04:54:55 +0800
To: Sal Denaro <schear@lvdi.net>
Subject: Re: FCPUNX:Internet Casinos
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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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