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Cracking a linear congruential generator
I was recently listening to the security now podcast, and they mentioned in passing that the linear congrunential generator (LCG) is trivial to crack. I use the LCG in a first year stats computing class and thought that cracking it would make a nice "extra" problem.
Are there any nice ways of cracking the LCG that doesn't involve brute force?
I'm not sure if this question is OT, but I wasn't sure where else to post the question. Also, my tags aren't very helpful since I don't have enough rep to create new tags.
