Card Playing Protocol?
Eric Hughes
hughes at ah.com
Mon Jul 18 11:37:39 PDT 1994
(At a comms protocol
level there might always be a single server per game--I don't know
yet--but I would like to hide that sort of stuff from users.)
There's no need for a central server per game, even running on one of
the player's own machines. What is possible with crypto is completely
flat distribution of the simulation. The difference is profound. I
would suggest that all who don't understand this meditate upon coin
flipping protocols, the simplest flatly distributed simulation--here,
of a random number generator.
Eric
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