
March 28, 2009
12:46 a.m.
Jacob Holm wrote:
Each time I reseed from a truly random source,
If you have a "truly random source" on hand, then you have an infinite amount of entropy available and there is no problem. Just feed your truly random numbers straight into the shuffling algorithm. We're talking about the case where you *don't* have truly random numbers, but only a PRNG with a limited amount of internal state. -- Greg