[146650] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: [Cryptography] Aside on random numbers (was Re: Opening
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Squier)
Fri Sep 6 12:38:41 2013
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From: Bill Squier <groo@old-ones.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130906100309.3a1a9bc5@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 10:26:58 -0400
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On Sep 6, 2013, at 10:03 AM, Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
> Naively, one could take a picture of the dice and OCR it. However,
> one doesn't actually need to OCR the dice -- simply hashing the
> pixels from the image will have at least as much entropy if the
> position of the dice is recognizable from the image.
[...]
> One could write an app to do this, but of course the phone is
> not exactly a secure platform to begin with...
http://gamesbyemail.com/News/DiceOMatic
-wps
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