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I think you should take a gander at this: http://nowiknow.com/shuffled/



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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