Recovering the state of xorshift128

· John Cook · May 15, 2026, 12:50 p.m.
Computing RNG software development reverse engineering random number generation Algorithm Analysis
Summary
This blog post explores the reverse engineering of the internal state of the xorshift128 random number generator, following previous discussions on Mersenne Twister and lehmer64. It includes code implementation that demonstrates the process of recovering the generator's state.
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