What you want is the Mersenne Twister. I've had an interest in RNGs for years, and this is the best I've seen (and probably will be the best for some time to come). There are two CPAN modules that implement it: Math::Random::MT (which appears to be the lastest implementation), and Rand::MersenneTwister.

With Math::Random::MT, the best starting seed would consist of 624 long ints. You can use Net::Random to get the random starting seed from Random.org using the URL:
http://www.random.org/cgi-bin/randbyte?nbytes=2496&format=h

There's always one more bug.

In reply to Re: the -other- shuffling question by jdhedden
in thread the -other- shuffling question by mstone

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