Comment by rogueaine
14 hours ago
That’s not at all what the article proposed. The author constructed and transpose to the linear shift register coefficients and built a circuit network based on this to predict the next state (in the sandbox) and direct recipes.
From the article:
> Sampling the current RNG through observations,
> Computing the current internal RNG state,
> Predicting the future internal states,
> Calculating corresponding quality levels for each future call, and finally
> Making use of the predicted levels with some adapters.
The entropy->seeds (internal RNG state) step took more math of course. Frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised if they could have extracted the seeds without the math with a bit of RE and memory inspection.
The version I did wasn’t predicting quality of course, it was predicting tie breakers