---
id: 4287
title: "Untwisting the Mersenne Twister: How I Killed the PRNG"
source_domain: bishopfox.com
source_url: "https://bishopfox.com/blog/untwisting-mersenne-twister-killed-prng"
published_at: "2014-08-05T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["cryptography", "randomness", "pentest-tools", "prng", "mersenne-twister", "untwister"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4287"
lang: en
---

# Untwisting the Mersenne Twister: How I Killed the PRNG

## Summary

Dan Petro introduces Untwister, which recovers the seed of insecure PRNGs like the Mersenne Twister via poor-seed enumeration, brute force or state inference, exposing predictable outputs.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** bishopfox.com
- **Published:** 2014-08-05T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://bishopfox.com/blog/untwisting-mersenne-twister-killed-prng
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4287