You might say, but the site knows their secret! What if they played the game THEMSELVES? They'd knew what PLAYER secret to use to win! But the only point of that is you're SCAMMING THE GAME. However if 10% of the "game" is owned by outside investors, then you can scam them. So yeah, satoshidice can scam their shareholders but not you.
What stops people from paralleling the SHA256 hashing on many ALUs, like GPUs for example and bruteforcing the key?
The fact that doing so will probably take anywhere between 175 and 24395872948732987 years to complete.
Hashing is a wonderful tool that solves all sorts of problems that when solved make a provably fair casino possible. I invite you to learn as much as you can on the topic.
This makes cracking passwords using good graphical cards very easy. Currently you can check about 310^9 SHA256 hashes per second (src), keep in mind that attacker knows salt and algorithm which you use for hashing passwords. So in one day attacker can bruteforce 310^96060*24 = 2,6 * 10^14 passwords. Assuming that password is chosen completely random from a set A-Za-z0-9 (62 different characters) in one day attacker can bruteforce password with a length of log(2,6 * 10^14) / log(62) = 8.
Still I will pass the idea up top, after we introduce the deposit/withdraw modules and the general bitcoin exchange we can add something like that as a seperate little application below every casino game.
And when a site uses a secret 10 characters in length, your bruteforce suddenly takes 3,844 days. Watch out if they increase it to 14 characters, then you're looking at 155 million years!
So what makes you think a site like SatoshiDice would use an easy-to-bruteforce 8 character or less secret? In fact, they use a 64 character secret!
http://satoshidice.com/secretlist.phpSeriously, you are doing a TERRIBLE job with PR for this site. You come in here like a buffalo in a china shop, aggressively attacking anyone who disagrees with you, with no regard for the fact that THEY MIGHT BE RIGHT! I would strongly suggest that you step down out of whatever public role you hold with the "company" and have someone else with a much thicker skin and who knows their cryptography step up to do the job.
I am a simple website admin, I am not here to discuss cryptography or any technical related info. I am a messenger between the person above me and the average user, I reply to emails, help resolve account problems etc etc, anyone with enough braincells to comprehend the concept of internal company hierarchy will understand that no one will pay a chief security expert which works with banks (and we have access to those) 150$ an hour to discuss ciphers with 16 year old teenagers that play Minecraft.
It is clear how much competition and dirty promoting exist on these forums since I was met with sticks and stones.
I mean no disrespect but I would rather trust my money to casino 777 than Satoshi or any other "provably fair" casino which will likely loose it's bitcoins as foolishly as Bitcoinia. Those who mind don't matter, those who matter don't mind. If there are any serious entrepreneurs that are ready to invest I can easily arrange an online chat with an expert.