ScottContini

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   by ScottContini 1y ago

   Also: I just realised who the person is that you were replying to, tptacek. Maybe you should Google his name. He's well known in cryptography, glad he is on my side! :-)
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   by ScottContini 1y ago

   If you look at the chatgpt conversation which is linked at the bottom of the article (it will take a minute to load because it is very long), you will see that my initial approach was using matrices over GF(2). I am in the process of writi
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   by ScottContini 1y ago

   The blog is not about going from one known internal state to the previous internal state. It is about not knowing the internal state but figuring it out after having 2 (or 3) consecutive outputs of the random number generator.
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   by ScottContini 1y ago

   You can call it recreational cryptography. I am no longer a professional cryptographer: I used to be. Now I have a full time job in the software industry and a family with kids. I don't have a lot of free time to work on cryptograph