An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
Want a surefire way to win at the slots? Do what some enterprising Russian hackers are doing and leverage the fact that slot machines use pseudorandom numbers in order to predict the next spin.
The reason slot machine manufacturers fell prey to this vulnerability is because they lacked a surefire way of generating true random numbers – a problem that software alone cannot solve. Instead, software must find an entropy (disorder) source in nature, a task that is far more difficult than it sounds.
Whitewood has cracked this nut by taking advantage of a quantum property of light, putting a true random number generator on a standard PCI card that can fit into most servers. Furthermore, the Whitewood Entropy Engine generates 350 megabits per second of random digits, more than enough for any cryptographic application – let alone that one-armed bandit.
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