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Design a P2P Poker Application

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konphorm

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I have a CS degree from a US University and am current working on my Masters. Since leaning about Bitcoin (http://www.bitcoin.org/) a Virtual P2P currency I have been obsessed with the idea of creating a Decentralized and Secure P2P poker application. Having background knowledge into modern cryptographic methods I started out fairly certain that such an application could be possible, and further research has only bolstered that confidence. Not having found any active projects resembling this idea I have since started a SourceForge Project named NinjaPoker at (https://sourceforge.net/projects/ninjapoker/).

The only way such an application can ever work or be trusted is if it is developed entirely out in the open. To that means I turn to the Slashdot community support in terms of developers and domain specific technical knowledge in addition to general feedback and comments. Some of the specific technical domains I am seeking assistance from, especially durring the initial development phase include:
-P2P Cryptographic and Authentication
-Anonymous P2P communication protocols
-Online Poker Cheating prevention

In light of recent scandals (http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/30/1932217) calling the reputation of even the major poker sites into questions, and fluctuating legal climate around the issue of online poker. (http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/07/2114253/Push-To-End-Online-Gambling-Ban-Gains-Steam) , (http://politics.slashdot.org/story/09/06/10/2238213/33-Million-In-Poker-Winnings-Seized-By-US-Govt) The advantages of a decentralized and secure P2P poker application that does not rely on a central bank or central authority of any kind to play, wager and transfer winnings become increasingly appealing. Not to mention that such a model lacking the associated overhead or profit motivations like the popular poker sites could stand out by not having to take any rake to support the house, meaning 100% of bets could go directly to players.

If you or anyone you know would be interested in helping with such a project I would greatly appreciate your support.





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geno said:
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I have a CS degree from a US University and am current working on my Masters.
YOU'RE THE MAN NOW DOG.
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Just trying to establish some credibility behind the idea before the naysayers and skeptics set in. Sorry if this offended you. Thanks for the bump.
 
I wrote an algorithm to determine hand strength for Texas Hold'em for an online poker app a while back. It's pretty awesome.
 
OCGuy said:
ipadz plz
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No reason this can't happen as long a King Jobs grants passage to the AppleStore.

DaveSimmons said:
We should petition The Powers That Be to default new accounts to an appropriate icon, such as classic black guy or a can of hormel meat by-products
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Along these lines is there a way for me to recover my old jonmullen Anandtech Account. I used it quite a bit back in the ColdFusion forum days, it should have been associated with the same email as my current account.
 
konphorm said:
The satisfaction of contributing and supporting. The project I created is licensed under the MIT license. Is that license not to your liking?
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I find it VERY hard to believe you're in the MIT level of smarts and need to outsource this trivial work. If you truly need it then ask me nicely and give me a compliment. I want my ego stroked.
 
HelloWorl said:
I find it VERY hard to believe you're in the MIT level of smarts and need to outsource this trivial work. If you truly need it then ask me nicely and give me a compliment. I want my ego stroked.
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I said nothing of my level of smarts. My only mention to to MIT was in the license under which I plan to release any work, which is the MIT license (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php). But your right it is fairly trivial I was just trying to be nice. Sorry I did not give your ego the HJ it wanted. A quick google query turned up a paper (PDF at http://beowulf.csail.mit.edu/~tsyl1/writeup.pdf) from someone who did go to MIT and talks about the combinatorics involved and even suggests a parallel Monte-Carlo sampling based brute-force algorithm. Thanks anyway!
 
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Possessed Freak said:
Wait, you are building an online gambling site to be freeware??
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Yes, totally P2P based, with secure anonymous exchange of real winnings, and no percentage of each pot going to any site or company. Free from the practical enforcement of any prohibitive legislative laws by any executive power.
 
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I was thinking of making a P2P application where users can share music for free over the internet. Anyone want in???
 
konphorm said:
I said nothing of my level of smarts. My only mention to to MIT was in the license under which I plan to release any work, which is the MIT license (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php). But your right it is fairly trivial I was just trying to be nice. Sorry I did not give your ego the HJ it wanted. A quick google query turned up a paper (PDF at http://beowulf.csail.mit.edu/~tsyl1/writeup.pdf) from someone who did go to MIT and talks about the combinatorics involved and even suggests a parallel Monte-Carlo sampling based brute-force algorithm. Thanks anyway!
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Good luck retard.
 
Warning: Post #19 maybe a SCAM!

I get Virus and/or Malware alerts from the first link, and online site checkers say that it is "Untested".

Going through the other stuff, it looks suspicious at a quick glance.

It seems to be connected to a currency thing, which might want to steal money from you.
 
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