Secure and Verifiable P2P Card Games

This paper presents the design of secure and verifiable P2P card games. An efficient scheme was proposed to achieve secret encoding, distribution, revealing, and verification in a fully distributed way. The proposed card shuffling scheme is based on lightweight operations such as permutation and modular addition. Compared with most of previous approaches basing on public key cryptosystems and their alike, the proposed scheme is simple and fast. This unique feature makes the proposed scheme more feasible for those resource limited mobile devices, such as PDAs and smartphones.