33 PUBLIC GAMING INTERNATIONAL • MARCH/APRIL 2023 The lottery and IGT can always read the blockchain, but to perform a reconstruction, the private key(s) from the trusted party(ies) are needed. And even after each private key is used to perform one level of decryption, the lottery is still transmitting an encrypted version of the Genesis Seed to us — if you recall, it was encrypted and secured with the One-Time Pad. We take that encrypted version, perform the final stage of decryption, and provide the lottery with the reconstruction. Is this more involved or time-consuming than in the past? Not at all, in fact one of the many advantages of the new system is that it’s more convenient for the lottery. Each decryption can now happen in less than a second. Of course, this takes a lot of computing power, and to supply it, IGT also invested in a server farm of computers with an unbelievable amount of computational power. If you compare it to the computing power available when the U.S. landed on the moon, it’s trillions and trillions of times greater. This investment is what makes the process secure, fast, and practical. NextGen also removes the requirement that the trusted parties be present at a certain physical location to initiate a reconstruction. A lottery can even initiate the process at their own headquarters. This is something that other security systems can’t enable, because in those legacy systems, once the shuffle seed is run through the trusted third party’s private key, it reveals the unencrypted — cleartext — shuffle seed. Given the significant investment required to create these advanced systems, what drives IGT to improve on the status quo? Lotteries upgrade their technology periodically because they know technology is central to bringing new innovations and capabilities to the industry. We know this, too, and the NextGen system is a vivid illustration because it has resulted in security that is significantly higher than legacy solutions. It’s an example of how we’re harnessing our investments in new technology to deliver superior value and multiple benefits for customers. We understand the lottery market and our customers’ needs, and even after all these years in the lottery business and the instants business, we still see room for advancements and growth in this category. We don’t like the status quo. That’s what drives us to innovate. Over the past couple of years, our customers have seen us invest millions of dollars toward quality, service, and innovation – and security is just the most recent example. IGT INSTANT ADVANTAGE IGT offers a suite of products and services that can be deployed alone or together to optimize a lottery’s instants business. Known as Instant Advantage, it goes far beyond printing to cover the full spectrum of what some lotteries are doing to achieve success in the instants category in partnership with IGT. The components draw on IGT’s professional service offerings to cover every touchpoint of the instant product, from strategic market planning, game development, instant data analytics, and retail logistics, to other critical operational and marketing needs. Through Instant Advantage, IGT supports customers by putting to work the efficiencies and analytics that only come from an integrated solution to help realize their vision for instants growth. n Don’t miss Keith Cash’s discussion of IGT Product Innovation and NextGen Security at PGRI SMART-Tech in Miami. For more information about Instant Advantage and NextGen, contact your IGT Account Representative.
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