Re: [Bug-gnubg] Feature request: provable dice correctness

[Jonathan Kinsey]

You can do this by setting the random number generator to "file" and
then selecting a file with some numbers in (the 1-6 numbers will be
picked out).

You can get some numbers from random.org (or just create a file anyway
you like):
http://random.org/nform.html
put them in a file and off you go.

Jon

Walter Müller wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> i wrote a feature request some weeks ago.
> 
> ---snip---
> 
> Hello GNUBG,
> 
> i don't want to enter manual dice.
> 
> Is there an interface for an external dice module? I am looking for an 
> external dice module, too.
> 
> Alternatively, would it be possible to generate a file of the dice GNUBG 
> received from random.org?
> 
> Great program. Thanks,
> 
> WM
> 
> ---snip---
> 
> I received a personal mail questioning why i was interested in such a 
> feature. Well, i am not the type of guy who trusts software. I am able to 
> review the GNUBG source code but it is a huge monster and lacks clarity. 
> Furthermore I don't compile the code myself. 
> 
> The possibility to get a file of the random numbers GNUBG received from 
> random.org would help. I don't want to trust a piece of software where i can 
> have proof of the correctness.
> 
> This is no personal suspiciousness I just have a bad feeling about so-called 
> "randomness" in gambling software (especially backgammon and poker servers).
> 
> Thanks for any comments and maybe help,
> 
> WM 
>

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