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spiridow · 2 years ago
I find it fun that some of the stolen tokens appear to have been donated back to a Bitcoin advocate.
anomalroil · 2 years ago
Too bad you didn't try it with much higher degrees.
spiridow · 2 years ago
The "infamous" reference generators from NIST 800-22 included linear, quadratic and cubic congruential generators only. A potentially vulnerable implementation that may have used this document as a reference would probably have only gone up to the cubic case. So I think it's unlikely that someone used a recurrence equation of higher degrees. But you never know. Also, the higher the degree, the more resources the attack will require. So, we opted for a balanced cost/benefit approach.
sebstefan · 2 years ago
Yeah, at least to try on that one signature with 3 million wallets on it. If it doesn't work with 30 or 100, most likely it means they're using a valid number generator, but if not, damn. That's a lot of bitcoins