Lotspiech

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DICE is a DOS program I wrote to generate fair dice rolls that can be used to play games by mail (PBM) or by electronic mail (PBEM). The rolls generated are unpredictable to either player, yet after the game each player can each check that the other used only rolls generated by the program. You are welcome to download this program; it is freely distributed. There are two versions, the dice.exe program itself, or a smaller zipped file of it (which of course you have to unzip to decompress). I wouldn't mind, if you find it useful or interesting, if you dropped me a line at lotsie@aol.com and told me so. (Complaints can go to bitbucket@nowhere.com .) One caveat. The security (unpredictability) of DICE rests on the inability of either side to solve the so-called "discrete log problem". A lot of modern cryptography is based on the intractibility of that problem. However, to keep the program fast I did not use a very large modulus, so brute force methods could probably be used to "crack" it. The bottom line is I would only recommend using the program for fun, not for any game in which money or value could change hands. DICE is self-documenting when you type "dice ?". Here is that help screen: Changes last made on January 19, 1997. This page has been visited times since January 19, 1997. Return to Jeff Lotspiech's AOL home page .

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