<story><title>Randar: A Minecraft exploit that uses LLL lattice reduction to crack server RNG</title><url>https://github.com/spawnmason/randar-explanation/blob/master/README.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>timdierks</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s me! Thanks for pulling up the quote from long ago:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;With his obvious technical skill, and his &amp;quot;cheat early and often&amp;quot;
attitude, Tim could have a promising career as an AI programmer
in the computer games industry. :)&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Instead took a path of security, authoring the TLS RFC and principal engineer in Google security. Thanks for the flashback.</text></item><item><author>dzdt</author><text>Back in 1999-2000 there was an &amp;quot;International RoShamBo Programming Competition&amp;quot; [1] where computer bots competed in the game of rock-paper-scissors. The baseline bot participant just selected its play randomly, which is a theoretically unbeatable strategy. One joke entry to the competition was carefully designed to beat the random baseline ... by reversing the state of the random number generator and then predicting with 100% accuracy what the random player would play.&lt;p&gt;Edit: the random-reversing bot was &amp;quot;Nostradamus&amp;quot; by Tim Dierks, which was declared the winner of the &amp;quot;supermodified&amp;quot; class of programs in the First International RoShamBo Programming Competition. [2]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;20180719050311&amp;#x2F;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca&amp;#x2F;~darse&amp;#x2F;rsbpc2.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;20180719050311&amp;#x2F;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;webdocs.cs...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;groups.google.com&amp;#x2F;g&amp;#x2F;comp.ai.games&amp;#x2F;c&amp;#x2F;qvJqOLOg-oc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;groups.google.com&amp;#x2F;g&amp;#x2F;comp.ai.games&amp;#x2F;c&amp;#x2F;qvJqOLOg-oc&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teekert</author><text>You pulled a Kobayashi Maru when you got the chance. I bow to thee.</text></comment>
<story><title>Randar: A Minecraft exploit that uses LLL lattice reduction to crack server RNG</title><url>https://github.com/spawnmason/randar-explanation/blob/master/README.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>timdierks</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s me! Thanks for pulling up the quote from long ago:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;With his obvious technical skill, and his &amp;quot;cheat early and often&amp;quot;
attitude, Tim could have a promising career as an AI programmer
in the computer games industry. :)&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Instead took a path of security, authoring the TLS RFC and principal engineer in Google security. Thanks for the flashback.</text></item><item><author>dzdt</author><text>Back in 1999-2000 there was an &amp;quot;International RoShamBo Programming Competition&amp;quot; [1] where computer bots competed in the game of rock-paper-scissors. The baseline bot participant just selected its play randomly, which is a theoretically unbeatable strategy. One joke entry to the competition was carefully designed to beat the random baseline ... by reversing the state of the random number generator and then predicting with 100% accuracy what the random player would play.&lt;p&gt;Edit: the random-reversing bot was &amp;quot;Nostradamus&amp;quot; by Tim Dierks, which was declared the winner of the &amp;quot;supermodified&amp;quot; class of programs in the First International RoShamBo Programming Competition. [2]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;20180719050311&amp;#x2F;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca&amp;#x2F;~darse&amp;#x2F;rsbpc2.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;20180719050311&amp;#x2F;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;webdocs.cs...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;groups.google.com&amp;#x2F;g&amp;#x2F;comp.ai.games&amp;#x2F;c&amp;#x2F;qvJqOLOg-oc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;groups.google.com&amp;#x2F;g&amp;#x2F;comp.ai.games&amp;#x2F;c&amp;#x2F;qvJqOLOg-oc&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shthed</author><text>Can you share the source to Nostradamus?</text></comment>