[Cryptography] Say 'unguessable' not random

james hughes hughejp at me.com
Thu Aug 25 18:59:05 EDT 2016


> On Aug 25, 2016, at 3:23 PM, Ray Dillinger <bear at sonic.net> wrote:
> 
> The Poker Protocol keeps getting reinvented.  I thought I invented it,
> but Adam Back got there before me and Bruce Schneier got there before
> he.


My father worked on poker tests on random numbers in the 1950s

Earliest reference I can find is 
	M. G. Kendall & B. Babington-Smith, "Randomness and random sampling numbers," R. Stat. Soc., Jn., v. 101, 1938, p. 147-166

http://www.ams.org/journals/mcom/1950-04-032/S0025-5718-50-99451-8/S0025-5718-50-99451-8.pdf

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