[104813] in Cypherpunks
Re: Shuffling
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mok-Kong Shen)
Thu Oct 29 04:10:30 1998
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 08:58:51 +0100
From: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de>
To: coderpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de>
Alex Alten wrote:
> The concept of swapping to get a random string of bits is very interesting.
> >From what I understand when one shuffles a deck of 52 cards 7 or more times
> the card order becomes unpredictable e.g. random. The shuffle must be
> what is called a "near perfect" shuffle. In other words the cards can't
You are right. The quality of shuffling depends on the quality of
the PRNG being used in the shuffling algorithm.
M. K. Shen
