The cryptographic background and a detailed discussion of the implementation issues are beyond the scope of this manual. The interested reader is referred to the following papers:
[Sc98]: Christian Schindelhauer. Toolbox for Mental Card Games.
Technical Report A-98-14, University of Lübeck, 1998.
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/schindelhauer98toolbox.html
[BS03]: Adam Barnett and Nigel P. Smart. Mental Poker Revisited.
In K.G. Paterson (Ed.): Cryptography and Coding 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2898, pp. 370–383, 2003.
[Gr05]: Jens Groth. A Verifiable Secret Shuffle of Homomorphic Encryptions.
Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2005/246, 2005.
http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/246
[St04]: Heiko Stamer. Kryptographische Skatrunde. (in German)
Offene Systeme (ISSN 1619-0114), 4:10–30, 2004.
http://www.gaos.org/~stamer/OS-4-2004-openskat_rev2005.pdf
[St05]: Heiko Stamer. Efficient Electronic Gambling: An Extended Implementation of the Toolbox for Mental Card Games.
Proceedings of the Western European Workshop on Research in Cryptology (WEWoRC 2005), Lecture Notes in Informatics P-74, pp. 1–12, 2005.
http://www.gaos.org/~stamer/WEWoRC2005_proc.pdf