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Wow! That PRNG post from 2009 was a wild ride! Totally worth a read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639976 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639976

• y42 6y ago
  This is fun to read. Are there ressources where you can read stories like that, how people discovered security flaws?
  • andrewnicolalde 6y ago
    You can usually find these sorts of stories in vulnerability writeups. Perhaps not as detailed as this one but it's definitely a category of blog.
  • xjwm 6y ago
    Not a ton of stories, but there's some good exercises on how to exploit flaws in real world crypto on: https://cryptopals.com/ https://cryptopals.com/