[onerng talk] DiceKeys looks very cool

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Wed Sep 16 12:27:40 BST 2020


dragon788 <onerng.info at deik.me> writes:

>Hex dice only have 6 possible values for each position and don't have a lot
>of bits of entropy due to the limited sets of values.

Hexadecimal dice have 16 possible values, you just read the hex string
directly off the faces:

http://dicecollector.com/images/large/3d/d53fe2fc1e67e87b5f0708bab15763.jpg

You can buy them from dice shops, Amazon, and cheapest of all, Aliexpress,
it's a couple of dollars for a set of ten although they're typically D16s rather
than being labelled in hex.

Peter.



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