On Jul 22, 2010, at 8:59 PM, John Gilmore wrote: > It's pretty outrageous that anyone would try to patent rolling barcoded > dice to generate random numbers. > > I've been generating random strings from dice for years. I find that > gamers' 20-sided dice are great; each roll gives you a hex digit, and > anytime you roll a 17 thru 20, you just roll again. One die will do; > you just roll it as many times as you need hex digits. > > Presumably pointing a camera at ordinary dice could automate the data > collection -- hey, wait, let me get my patent lawyer!
Too late. http://gamesbyemail.com/DiceGenerator -wps --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com