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PRNG state compromise extension attack

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Description

A category of attacks in which an attacker compromises a single state of the PRNG and penetrates past or future outputs of the PRNG using this information [1]. Usually this attack is executed using the seed state or a vulnerable state in which insufficient entropy is available.


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