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1. Cryptanalysis of the Random Number Generator of the Windows Operating System

   Dorrendorf, Gutterman and Pinkas have reverse engineered the random number generator code from Windows. According to their paper, it is easy (O(1)) to compute a previous random number and possible (O(2^23) to predict the next one. (via The Inquirer)

   Tags: windows, rng, entropy, random, security, paper, __blog__ by Benjamin Schweizer and 1 other (2007-11-15)

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