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3.5.3 Drawing a Card from the Deck

Now every player has the same shuffled deck s and nobody knows in which order the 52 cards are stacked. Therefore you can simply use any drawing strategy to obtain a players hand. For example, look at the following code that draws two cards from s for each player. 

TMCG_Stack<VTMF_Card> hand[5];
for (size_t i = 0; i < 5; i++)
{
  VTMF_Card c1, c2;
  s.pop(c1), s.pop(c2);
  hand[i].push(c1), hand[i].push(c2);
}

Further, probably you want disclose the card types to the corresponding player. Consider the code fragment for the player P_j: Every player receives the necessary information from the other players and she computes the card types of her hand hand[j]. Finally, these types are stored together with the masked cards in the open stack private_hand. 

TMCG_OpenStack<VTMF_Card> private_hand;
for (size_t i = 0; i < 5; i++)
{
  if (i == j)
  {
    for (size_t k = 0; k < hand[j].size(); k++)
    {
      tmcg->TMCG_SelfCardSecret(hand[j][k], vtmf);
      for (size_t i2 = 0; i2 < 5; i2++)
      {
        if (i2 == j)
          continue;
        if (!tmcg->TMCG_VerifyCardSecret(hand[j][k], vtmf,
          in_stream[i2], out_stream[i2]))
            std::cerr << "Verification failed!" << std::endl;
      }
      private_hand.push(tmcg->TMCG_TypeOfCard(hand[j][k], vtmf),
        hand[j][k]);
    }
  }
  else
  {
    for (size_t k = 0; k < hand[i].size(); k++)
    {
      tmcg->TMCG_ProveCardSecret(hand[i][k], vtmf,
        in_stream[i], out_stream[i]);
    }
  }
}

The example can be modified in a straightforward way to publicly disclose a card from a players hand or from the remaining stack s, i.e. to lay down the card face-up on the table.