Hacking Bridge-Hand Generation Software

Interesting:

Roughly three weeks later, there is a operation program available to crack ACBL hand records.

• Given three consecutive boards, all the remaining boards for that session can be determined.
• The program can be easily parallelized. This analysis can be finished while sessions are still running

this would permit the following type of attack:

• A confederate watch boards 1-3 of the USBF team trials on vugraph
• The confederate uses Amazon web services to crack all the rest of the boards for that session
• The confederate texts the hands to a players smart phone
• The player hits the head, whips out his smart phone, and …

Tags: cheating, cryptography, games, hacking

Posted on September 16, 2016 at 12:12 PM • 10 Comments