Re: DIS: making semi-trusted dice?

2014-11-20 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Thu, 20 Nov 2014, Alex Smith wrote: comes up with a mapping from random results to answers (although this can't be done as ranges, e.g. if you want a 75% probability, you need not just "1-3: yes, 4: no" and "1: no, 2-4: yes" but also "1, 2, 4: yes, 3: no" and "1, 3, 4: yes, 2: no"), and then

Re: DIS: Proto: Organizations

2014-11-20 Thread omd
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Alex Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2014-11-19 at 16:07 -0500, omd wrote: >> Does Awarding a Medal count as a modification to an Organization? > > It's not actually relevant. The reason I used Appropriate/Inappropriate > rather than some previously defined term was so tha

Re: DIS: making semi-trusted dice?

2014-11-20 Thread omd
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > If I put up a (in programming sense trivial) dice server tailored > to Agoran needs, are there folks out there who know a little bit > about security who can advise on a way it can be "trusted"? > (E.g. Hash of the source code mailed with resul

Re: DIS: making semi-trusted dice?

2014-11-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
Thanks much! Some details: On Thu, 20 Nov 2014, Alex Smith wrote: > comes up with a mapping from random results to answers (although this > can't be done as ranges, e.g. if you want a 75% probability, you need > not just "1-3: yes, 4: no" and "1: no, 2-4: yes" but also "1, 2, 4: yes, > 3: no" an

Re: DIS: making semi-trusted dice?

2014-11-20 Thread Alex Smith
On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 11:02 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > Hey folks, > > If I put up a (in programming sense trivial) dice server tailored > to Agoran needs, are there folks out there who know a little bit > about security who can advise on a way it can be "trusted"? > (E.g. Hash of the source co

DIS: making semi-trusted dice?

2014-11-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
Hey folks, If I put up a (in programming sense trivial) dice server tailored to Agoran needs, are there folks out there who know a little bit about security who can advise on a way it can be "trusted"? (E.g. Hash of the source code mailed with result; source code is available on site to confirm

Re: DIS: Proto: Organizations

2014-11-20 Thread Alex Smith
On Wed, 2014-11-19 at 16:07 -0500, omd wrote: > Does Awarding a Medal count as a modification to an Organization? It's not actually relevant. The reason I used Appropriate/Inappropriate rather than some previously defined term was so that for changes where appropriateness wasn't specifically menti