Re:Russians Engineer a Slot Machine Cheat that Casinos Can't...
by jcoffland on Monday February 06, 2017 @03:44PM
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The seed of a PRNG is a pretty well defined thing.
Re:Russians Engineer a Slot Machine Cheat that Casinos Can't...
by Strom on Monday February 06, 2017 @04:12PM
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Successful communication depends on participants understanding eachother. You'll notice that the context of my comment was replying to a person who stated that they are not a programmer. Filling my post with unnecessarily precise lingo would work to undermine my goal which is to convey a basic idea.
We can probably agree that PRNG is a function that takes an input and produces an output. I guess you take issue with me calling this input the seed. My use is probably a simplification indeed, but I thought one that doesn't change any principles. Because the user's interaction timing is crucial, it seems pretty clear to me that the exploit is about influencing the input of the PRNG. We can call this input something else, e.g. internal state. Or we can call it the seed.