Re: Constructing a random permutation on the fly

Ilmari Karonen <usenet2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Seriously, this was the answer I was going to post. To expand a
little on it, the "Hasty Pudding trick" is to start with a number in
the desired range and iterate the encryption function until you get a
result that is also in the range. The fact that a block cipher is a
permutation guarantees that this procedure will terminate,

The process is actually not guaranteed to terminate, since the
permutation can have cycles. For n=100000 the probability of this may
be enough that you have to adjust the scheme to allow for it.
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