Masterminding the largest lottery scam in American history

Re:Masterminding the largest lottery scam in American history by sweis on Friday May 04, 2018 @11:58AM (#16995577)

Before he even backdoored it, the lottery was using a Mersenne Twister?

The random number is called the seed, and the seed is plugged into the algorithm, a pseudorandom number generator called the Mersenne Twister. At the end, the computer spits out the winning lottery numbers.

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Re:Masterminding the largest lottery scam in American history by egypturnash on Friday May 04, 2018 @01:13PM (#16996243)

Mersenne Twister, with a seed based on the amount of Americum-241 detected by a Geiger counter.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americium#Occurrence if you’re curious how much there generally is and how much it might fluctuate.

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Re:Masterminding the largest lottery scam in American history by rootw0rm on Friday May 04, 2018 @05:45PM (#16998638)

There's no excuse for using MT for anything important this century.

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Re:Masterminding the largest lottery scam in American history by himom on Saturday May 05, 2018 @04:07AM (#17000886)

Fortuna w/ AES as the block cipher.

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Re:Masterminding the largest lottery scam in American history by rootw0rm on Friday May 04, 2018 @05:44PM (#16998630)

Same thing I thought. Pure incompetence.

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