Re: Shuffling at sites
It's been a while since the early days of FTP when their top pros were online a lot and chatting and I haven't been able to find a page on their website, but I seem to recall that the description of knowledgeable people like Chris Ferguson was that the RNG was something like a truly random hardware RNG that relied on something like radioactive decay to generator numbers and, on top of that as a failsafe in case the hardware failed, a pseudo-random RNG based on things like user inputs (and if you can predict the time in microseconds between clicks of the entire user base, then you deserve any money you can gain from that.
I think that continuous shuffling was also supposed to be intended as a security feature so that someone couldn't get the cards to come in advance if their system was compromised.
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