Re: Poker

2002-11-15 Thread Myers Carpenter
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 23:40, Nomen Nescio wrote: Sure, there are any number of poker algoerithms which prevent the server from cheating. See the many literature references on Mental Poker. One recent protocol is Kurosawa et al, IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals, Vol E00-A, No. 1, January

Re: Poker

2002-11-15 Thread Nomen Nescio
James Donald writes: In principle it should be possible to create poker playing software where the server cannot cheat, but it is not obvious to me how this can be done. Does anyone know of a cheat proof algorithm? Sure, there are any number of poker algoerithms which prevent the server from

Poker

2002-11-15 Thread James A. Donald
-- Internet Poker is a big money activity. A major problem with this activity is that the site can choose to allow certain privileged players to cheat. In principle it should be possible to create poker playing software where the server cannot cheat, but it is not obvious to me how this can

Re: Poker

2002-11-15 Thread Bill Stewart
James Donald writes: In principle it should be possible to create poker playing software where the server cannot cheat, but it is not obvious to me how this can be done. Does anyone know of a cheat proof algorithm? At 05:40 AM 11/15/2002 +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote: Sure, there are any