Does shuffle() produce uniform result ?

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <7xhcm4pl5m.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com>, Paul Rubin wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> writes:
>
>> Except that the NSA's reputation has taken a dent since they failed to
>> anticipate the attacks on MD5 and SHA-1.
> 
> NSA had nothing to do with MD5 ...

Nevertheless, it was their job to anticipate attacks on it. After all, they
call themselves the "National _Security_ Agency", don't they?

> ... and it's to NSA's credit that SHA-1 held up for as long as it did.

But they have no convincing proposal for a successor. That means the gap
between the classified and non-classified state of the art has shrunk down
to insignificance.