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Alice, Bob, Carol, Dave and Eve Play Mental Poker in Go

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Okay. You have 52 cards, and you have five people in the game (with Alice, Bob, Carol, Dave and Eve), and they are all remote and none of them trusts any dealer. So how can you create a game, where we shuffle the cards, and where each player will get the same card dealt as each other? One method is defined within the following paper [here]:

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
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