miscellaneous-ctf
Breaking Math.random() and Predicting Random Numbers (Housecat RTCP CTF Writeup: JS Lotto)
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TL;DR? Here. PS: You need to do pip install z3-solver requests for this to work. Okay so a little confession: Before the CTF challenge, I didn’t think much of Cryptographically Secure Pseudo Random Generators (CSPRNGS), and thought they were just for very high security purposes, like defence against a state level hacking agency. I thought normal PRNGs were enough for day-to-day purposes and no one could realistically break it. After this CTF…oh boy, it takes 30 mins to break PRNGs (the one used by Javascript in Chrome/Firefox) and I’m never going to use those for security again. I should’ve never…