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X-Istence
on April 19, 2018
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Shortest bit sequence that's never been sent over ...
I think you should take a gander at this:
http://nowiknow.com/shuffled/
sjcsjc
on April 19, 2018
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Or maybe this
https://czep.net/weblog/52cards.html
dfox
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One thing that this shows is that many accepted cryptographicaly secure RNGs are in fact insufficient for shuffling decks of cards. I'm not sure how one would go about exploiting the resulting bias, but it is probably somehow exploitable.
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