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Re: [Bug-gnubg] Feature request: provable dice correctness
From: |
Jonathan Kinsey |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-gnubg] Feature request: provable dice correctness |
Date: |
Sun, 26 Nov 2006 09:54:59 +0000 |
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You can do this by setting the random number generator to "file" and
then selecting a file with some numbers in (the 1-6 numbers will be
picked out).
You can get some numbers from random.org (or just create a file anyway
you like):
http://random.org/nform.html
put them in a file and off you go.
Jon
Walter Müller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i wrote a feature request some weeks ago.
>
> ---snip---
>
> Hello GNUBG,
>
> i don't want to enter manual dice.
>
> Is there an interface for an external dice module? I am looking for an
> external dice module, too.
>
> Alternatively, would it be possible to generate a file of the dice GNUBG
> received from random.org?
>
> Great program. Thanks,
>
> WM
>
> ---snip---
>
> I received a personal mail questioning why i was interested in such a
> feature. Well, i am not the type of guy who trusts software. I am able to
> review the GNUBG source code but it is a huge monster and lacks clarity.
> Furthermore I don't compile the code myself.
>
> The possibility to get a file of the random numbers GNUBG received from
> random.org would help. I don't want to trust a piece of software where i can
> have proof of the correctness.
>
> This is no personal suspiciousness I just have a bad feeling about so-called
> "randomness" in gambling software (especially backgammon and poker servers).
>
> Thanks for any comments and maybe help,
>
> WM
>
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