Comment by strstr
13 hours ago
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
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