[Cryptography] Proper Entropy Source

Gé Weijers ge at weijers.org
Wed Jan 22 19:26:08 EST 2020


On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 1:41 PM Salz, Rich via cryptography <
cryptography at metzdowd.com> wrote:

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> https://www.developer.com/tech/article.php/10923_616221_3/How-We-Learned-to-Cheat-at-Online-Poker-A-Study-in-Software-Security.htm
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> That article is nearly 20 years old.  Sheesh.  Ignore it.
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>
History repeats itself.
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/russians-engineer-brilliant-slot-machine-cheat-casinos-no-fix/

This happened 6 years ago, but it took regulatory changes to get the gaming
industry to update their random number generators. Updating the RNG
triggers an expensive review by the labs that do the analysis and testing
of the games, so the industry was resistant to changing things.

I'm sure there are still plenty of clueless applications of insecure random
number generators around.

-- 
Gé
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