The Royal Navy and BAE Systems plc were pleased as punch yesterday to announce that their implementation of Windows for Submarines™ is complete ahead of schedule. Windows boxes on Ethernet LANs are now in control of the UK's nuclear-propelled and nuclear-armed warship fleet.
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)
