Inventors:
Dennis J. Dupray - Golden CO, US
Sheldon F. Goldberg - Denver CO, US
International Classification:
H04K 1/00
US Classification:
380251, 713150, 463 16, 463 17, 463 18, 463 19, 463 20, 463 25, 463 26, 463 27, 463 28, 463 29
Abstract:
A system and method is disclosed for assuring that networked communications between parties playing a game on a network (e. g. , the Internet) are not tampered with by either of the parties for illicitly gaining an advantage over the other party. An initial sequence of tokens (e. g. , card representations) for playing the game are doubly encrypted using an encryption key from each of the parties. Accordingly, during play of the game neither party can modify the initial sequence of game tokens during the game. At termination of the game, at least one of the parties can fully decrypt the initial sequence of tokens, and thereby, if desired, compare the played token sequence with the corresponding the initial token sequence.