In cryptography, an alternating step generator (ASG) is a cryptographic pseudorandom number generator used in stream ciphers, based on three linear-feedback...

Such generators include the stop-and-go generator, the alternating step generator and the shrinking generator. An alternating step generator comprises...

electricity generation, a generator, also called an electric generator, electrical generator, and electromagnetic generator is an electromechanical device...

(or synchronous generator) is an electrical generator that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy in the form of alternating current. For reasons...

shrinking generator principle Alternating step generator, a similar stream cipher D. Coppersmith, H. Krawczyk, and Y. Mansour, “The shrinking generator,” in...

degrees of the three registers are relatively prime, the period of this generator is the product of the periods of the three registers. Thus the period...

arc4random, an API originating in OpenBSD providing access to a random number generator originally based on RC4. The API allows no seeding, as the function initializes...

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used to mean simply alternating and direct, respectively, as when they modify current or voltage. The usual waveform of alternating current in most electric...

pseudorandom key generators are nearly always used to generate the symmetric cipher session keys. However, lack of randomness in those generators or in their...

"I developed (...) tests to break a generator, and I developed the generator to pass the tests. The generator is ISAAC." The ISAAC algorithm has similarities...

of several such methods. Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generators (CSPRNGs) can also be built using block ciphers. Message authentication...

compile-time option. ChaCha20 is also used for the arc4random random number generator in FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD operating systems, instead of the broken...

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pike fish. The cipher combines ideas from A5 with the lagged Fibonacci generators used in FISH. It is about 10% faster than FISH, yet believed to be much...

multi-ess-zero-one), is an encryption algorithm based on a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG). MULTI-S01 is an encryption scheme preserving both confidentiality...

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software based stream cipher using Lagged Fibonacci generators, plus a concept from the shrinking generator cipher. It was published by Siemens in 1993. FISH...

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where ciphertext from one block encryption step gets intermixed with the data from the next encryption step. To initiate this process, an additional input...

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Institute (Warsaw). p. 1. Retrieved 3 May 2017. C.G. Günther, "Alternating Step Generator Controlled by de Bruijn Sequence", Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT...

by generating blocks of a keystream (in place of a Pseudorandom number generator) and applying an XOR operation to each bit of the plaintext with each...

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In an alternating current (AC) electric power system, synchronization is the process of matching the frequency, phase and voltage of a generator or other...

shrinking generator); or using Evolutionary algorithm to introduce non-linearity. Irregular clocking of the LFSR, as in the alternating step generator. Important:...

In cryptography, MUGI is a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) designed for use as a stream cipher. It was among the cryptographic techniques recommended...

occurs when the key (expressed in hexadecimal) is: Alternating ones + zeros (0x0101010101010101) Alternating 'F' + 'E' (0xFEFEFEFEFEFEFEFE) '0xE0E0E0E0F1F1F1F1'...

A linear congruential generator (LCG) is an algorithm that yields a sequence of pseudo-randomized numbers calculated with a discontinuous piecewise linear...

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