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An example of how to guess the seed used in first call to PHP's mt_rand()
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$time = time(0); | |
$pid = getmypid(); | |
echo 'time is: ',$time,' (just the unix timestamp so very guessable)',PHP_EOL; | |
echo 'pid is: ',$pid, ' (process id of current PHP process usually in 1000s )',PHP_EOL; | |
$rand = mt_rand(); | |
echo 'Output of 1st call to uninitialized to mt_rand is: '.$rand,PHP_EOL; | |
echo 'Output of 2nd call to uninitialized to mt_rand is: '.mt_rand(),PHP_EOL; | |
echo 'Output of 3rd call to uninitialized to mt_rand is: '.mt_rand(),PHP_EOL; | |
echo 'Guessing the seed now: ',PHP_EOL; | |
for ($i = 0; $i < 1000000; $i++) { | |
$seed = (($time * $pid) ^ $i); | |
mt_srand($seed); | |
if ($rand == mt_rand()) { | |
echo 'seed was : ',$seed,PHP_EOL; | |
mt_srand($seed); | |
echo 'Now we can guess the random',PHP_EOL; | |
echo '1st: ',mt_rand(),PHP_EOL; | |
echo '2nd: ',mt_rand(),PHP_EOL; | |
echo '3rd: ',mt_rand(),PHP_EOL; | |
break; | |
} | |
} |
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Example output on PHP 7.0.3
time is: 1455634510 (just the unix timestamp so very guessable)
pid is: 23688 (process id of current PHP process usually in 1000s )
Output of 1st call to uninitialized to mt_rand is: 605310210
Output of 2nd call to uninitialized to mt_rand is: 1097357143
Output of 3rd call to uninitialized to mt_rand is: 1279652743
Guessing the seed now:
seed was : 34481070227260
Now we can guess the random
1st: 605310210
2nd: 1097357143
3rd: 1279652743