This is probably the most famous issue about that phenomenon: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~daw/papers/ddj-netscape.html https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~

This is probably the most famous issue about that phenomenon: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~daw/papers/ddj-netscape.html https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~daw/papers/ddj-netscape.ht... You could say that our understanding of PRNGs has improved a bit since then. A recent thread about brute-forcing PRNG states in a game: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18880528 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18880528