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Posted by: Four Dogs at August 3, 2005, 11:51 am

Topic: Another "is online poker fixed" thread.. reasons below! Forum: Card Chat

Quote: Originally Posted by High Maintenance

it may be impossible for a computer program to be TRUELY random. ??

It is in fact impossible for anything to be truly random. In fact RNG are actually PRNG's or Psuedo Random Number Generators. The PRNG is really a ery simple funcion avaialble to anyone. Why reinvent the wheel. The key to security is the SEED and the number of shuffling possibilities. All PRNG are primed with a hopefully secure number known as a seed or key. The early poker sites like Planet Poker, and Pure used a 32bit seed derived from the number of milliseconds since midnight, public knowledge, as the key to the shuffling algorythm. It could generate only a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the possible ways a deck could be shuffled. These early sites were ulnerable to brute force attacks by hackers and it was possible once the seed was cracked to determine the sequence of cards to come. This is ancient history, with all poker sites now seeding the algorythim with 128 and 264 bit encryption, all possible shuffles are covered and the deck is reshuffled continuosly. The cards you see on-line are far more random than anything a human can reproduce. Maybe that's the problem.

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