Hacking Bridge-Hand Generation Software
Roughly three weeks later, there is a operation program available to crack ACBL hand records.
- Given three consecutive boards, all the remaining boards for that session can be determined.
- The program can be easily parallelized. This analysis can be finished while sessions are still running
this would permit the following type of attack:
- A confederate watch boards 1-3 of the USBF team trials on vugraph
- The confederate uses Amazon web services to crack all the rest of the boards for that session
- The confederate texts the hands to a players smart phone
- The player hits the head, whips out his smart phone, and …
My Info • September 16, 2016 12:52 PM
Ok, first of all, I know nothing about cards, although I do think Bruce’s S olitaire cipher is extremely cool, (and the “bias” discovered in it is probably irrelevant for actual hand use,) so I’m going to sound like an idiot here, but for as long as I can remember there has been a bridge column in the newspaper. (That’s the key to the S olitaire cipher, by the way…)
But as far as I am concerned, once a card game becomes so “professional” that the house has to keep all hands of all players under surveillance, the game is so stacked that I’m just not even interested in getting started.
Maybe I’ll just have to buy a deck of cards at the dollar store and figure out that S olitaire cipher. I wouldn’t put any more money than that in a card game anyway lol.