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Re:Masterminding the largest lottery scam in American history by astura on Friday May 04, 2018 @03:50PM (#16997666)
What good is an "audit" if it doesn't even catch the simplest of simple malicious code?
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Re:Masterminding the largest lottery scam in American history by jwilk on Friday May 04, 2018 @04:52PM (#16998215)
The auditors did only this:

- ran the RNG through statistical tests (which of course passed flawlessly)

- audited the source code (but the backdoor was in binaries…)

Source: DEFCON presentation linked elsewhere in comments.

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