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Key not a weakness 4 intended purpose
Posted By: Boop In Response To: The key is the weakness (Boop)
Date: Sunday, 14 May 2017, at 12:16 p.m.
BTW The main reason for having the secret user codes for the seed is to prove that the dice have not been manipulated during a match by a player, or by the app. For instance by tapping in a specific place on the screen to receive a double 6.
You can write the dice down as you play and then re-generate them with the revealed seed after the match to confirm this.
What you are using is a fair, uniform list of numbers generated by a PRNG that are indistinguishable from truly random numbers.
Transmitting the seed to an accomplice or cracking the seed after X number of rolls have been revealed, coupled with learning how to play backgammon while concealing your knowledge of future rolls (if that's even possible) is overkill to say the least.
How about this - many people record their matches. Who's to say these matches are not being transmitted to an accomplice who is using XG and Tom Keith's Apple watch idea to transmit the best moves to the cheating player?
Same goes for streamed matches - you just need an accomplice, XG and an Apple watch/earpiece/bespoke vibration device.
Same thing for any other game including chess, scrabble ... or college exams ... etc.
... and if you want to make money backgammon is a ridiculous arena in which to expend your energies. Spend a few hundred bucks on some code, learn to phish and encrypt companies hardrives for an untraceable bitcoin ransom.
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