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Mental poker is the common description for a set of cryptographic problems related to playing a fair game over a distance without the need for any trusted third party.

Mental poker is the common description for a set of cryptographic problems related to playing a fair game over a distance without the need for any trusted third party.

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Mental Poker with untrusted server (i.e. no peer to peer)

The question of implementing peer to peer mental poker has already been asked on stackoverflow. And there appears to be an implementation called LibTMCG. Also on this site a question was asked about problems such as clients disconnecting or refusing…
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Mental Poker: Kriegspiel tic-tac-toe

The SBMC comic shared rules for a new version of tic-tac-toe today — I'm trying to figure out if there's a mental-poker/zero trustless version which could be played between two untrusting players (without the "monitor"). Is there a way we can know…
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Would this mental poker algorithm work?

I had an idea for a Mental Poker algorithm. Since I'm a n00b, there is likely to be things wrong with it. But since I'm a n00b, I am not able to detect the problems yet. Would this algorithm ensure a fair game? Imagine a point in the middle of…
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