It's pretty outrageous that anyone would try to patent rolling barcoded dice to generate random numbers.
I've been generating random strings from dice for years. I find that gamers' 20-sided dice are great; each roll gives you a hex digit, and anytime you roll a 17 thru 20, you just roll again. One die will do; you just roll it as many times as you need hex digits. Presumably pointing a camera at ordinary dice could automate the data collection -- hey, wait, let me get my patent lawyer! John --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com