# An Exercise in Weak Random Seed Exploitation

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**Created:** [January 16, 2017, 6:12am UTC](https://forum.tjll.net/t/an-exercise-in-weak-random-seed-exploitation/85 "2017-01-16T06:12:22Z")
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### Author: ![tyler](https://forum.tjll.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@tyler](https://forum.tjll.net/u/tyler)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2017, 6:12am UTC](https://forum.tjll.net/t/an-exercise-in-weak-random-seed-exploitation/85/1 "2017-01-16T06:12:23Z")

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Last weekend I participated in a capture-the-flag event sponsored by [Bishop Fox](http://www.bishopfox.com/) and ran by students at BYU. Following the event I decided that it may be fun to try and crack the scoring software itself – so I’ve written up the process here to explain how I put the exploit together.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://blog.tjll.net/weak-random-seed-rack-exploit/](https://blog.tjll.net/weak-random-seed-rack-exploit/)