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{"author": ["ret2basic"]}
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#include <stdio.h>
int main(){
unsigned int random;
random = rand(); // random value!
unsigned int key=0;
scanf("%d", &key);
if( (key ^ random) == 0xdeadbeef ){
printf("Good!\n");
system("/bin/cat flag");
return 0;
}
printf("Wrong, maybe you should try 2^32 cases.\n");
return 0;
}
Check out the rand(3) man page. It says "if no seed value is provided, the rand() function is automatically seeded with a value of 1". That means a seedless
rand() is deterministic. We can run the following code to test our hypothesis:#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
int random = rand();
printf("%i", random);
return 0;
}
The result is always
1804289383 no matter how many times we run this program. To find the key, do the math in a Python shell:>>> 0xdeadbeef ^ 1804289383
3039230856
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