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Board Gambling
Re: Breaking: Shuffle-based Provably Fair Implementations Can Cheat Players (proof)
by
TrevorXavier
on 01/06/2016, 15:02:17 UTC
this means that Black Jack, Baccarat, Poker etc are in danger to not be provably fair?

what would be the perfect provably fair implementation for those popular card games?

thx for the work you did

Thank you!

It's more than that. I'm claiming that the shuffle-based games are actually not provably fair. This is a direct attack against the algorithm.

Here's why:

  • On a mid-range CPU (like a Core i5), a casino can calculate a single arrangement in about 17 hours.
  • Since it is not looking for the "ultimate" arrangement (just a better one), it can continuously search one arrangement at a time and update its "master list" of cold decks that result in a higher house edge.
  • These deck arrangements, over time, will always perform better.

I have written a new implementation that I will share here soon. I won't go so far as to say that it is "perfect" (since there is no perfect crypto), but maybe "next generation"?