<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 25, 2016, at 3:23 PM, Ray Dillinger <<a href="mailto:bear@sonic.net" class="">bear@sonic.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">The Poker Protocol keeps getting reinvented. I thought I invented it,</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">but Adam Back got there before me and Bruce Schneier got there before</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">he.</span></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My father worked on poker tests on random numbers in the 1950s</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Earliest reference I can find is </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>M. G. Kendall & B. Babington-Smith, "Randomness and random sampling numbers," R. Stat. Soc., Jn., v. 101, 1938, p. 147-166</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><a href="http://www.ams.org/journals/mcom/1950-04-032/S0025-5718-50-99451-8/S0025-5718-50-99451-8.pdf" class="">http://www.ams.org/journals/mcom/1950-04-032/S0025-5718-50-99451-8/S0025-5718-50-99451-8.pdf</a></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>