Marc on Nostr: Has anyone read any books on dice entropy? I want to learn more about generating ...
Has anyone read any books on dice entropy? I want to learn more about generating sufficient entropy for digital signatures using 100+ dice tolls.
II once read Stupak On Craps in my gambling days. according to Stupak, The house edge on craps is 1.414%
You need perfect dice to maintain that razor thin profit margin.
If your dice are biased, they will cut into that razor thin margin. Therefore, casinos need perfect dice and change them often.
This RNG bug basically generated a key with the equivalent of 15 dice rolls/ ~40 bits.
If we need 128 bits for sufficient entropy, what if you took a chance rolling dice that are not perfect. Perhaps one even has a chip. If you rolled 100 times, would you expect greater than 40 bits of entropy?
Would you expect more than 128 bits? #asknostr
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