Why would he have to reverse engineer it? It's open source, just look at the code.
Scott: I'm not sure, but my guess is that if you can reverse engineer it wihout looking at the source code, so can another hacker. The source probably does not lead on the strength of the problem as proving that it can be perdicted what the next number will be (or was)..
wouldn't you say?
I read part of the paper, it seems (to use plain english) that the random number source code is a total hacked mess, perhaps the binary is more readable than the source? after all it is Linux!