Re: Card Playing Protocol
hughes@ah.com
Time to read crypto.
HEY! I've read Schneier (if that is what you meant). Eric also went into various details of how to reveal cards to individuals (my hand) and all players (the current trick), etc.--details I am not prepared to comment on yet. I have some reading to do first! I also need to review (learn) a collection of card games to appreciate their requirements, whether there is a tractable common set of operations. (Ironic to have a virtual non-card player consider this choice of project.) Crypto is not the only thing I need to read. -kb -- Kent Borg +1 (617) 776-6899 kentborg@world.std.com kentborg@aol.com Proud to claim 35:00 hours of TV viewing so far in 1994!
I remember my crypto professor going over this as part of the last week of our crypto class. Somehow, there was a snag using RSA, and if I remember correctly he used a model where both sides share the same N value. He ran across some P and Q prime values where this didn't work, but with a shared modulus for both players, it did work. Bruce Schneier's book didn't mention this snag, so either that was an error, or there's something else we overlooked durring the simulation. (This was a blackboard simulation, not a computer simulation, but it failed with some small numners... :-) Anyway, you can ask him about it, his address is rvslyke@prism.poly.edu
Time to read crypto.
HEY! I've read Schneier (if that is what you meant). No. Schneier is a start, but the source papers are really a must read for an actual implementer. Schneier's book is very good as a survey of technique and ideas. The bibliography is _excellent_, and make the survey truly useful. Eric
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