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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 10 months ago

Is it possible for devices on an online group chat to toss a coin without trusting each other and the server?

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Is it possible for devices on an online group chat to toss a coin without trusting each other and the server?

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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 10 months ago

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For a more frivolous, but equally rigorous, approach

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_poker
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  1•10 months ago
  There’s an actual article on [remote coin-flipping] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_flipping#Telecommunications)

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