[Cryptography] All dice are loaded?

[Tom Mitchell]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> It's somewhat common to throw a set of dice to generate a "good enough"
> random number, or at least a seed.  However, they appear to have a slight
> bias in favour of "6", due to the pattern of the dimples.
>

Do compare and contrast common dice in a board game with drilled
and painted spots and the high quality dice that you might find
on the table in Vegas.

Someone here did build a dice machine to generate entropy....
He may have more data....

But Casino dice are astoundingly precise and very well audited
by the gaming commision.




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