pseudorandom generators is related to the existence of one-way functions through a number of theorems, collectively referred to as the pseudorandom generator...
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cryptography, a pseudorandom generator (PRG) for a class of statistical tests is a deterministic procedure that maps a random seed to a longer pseudorandom string...
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cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator (CSPRNG) or cryptographic pseudorandom number generator (CPRNG) is a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) with...
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A pseudorandom number generator (PRNG), also known as a deterministic random bit generator (DRBG), is an algorithm for generating a sequence of numbers...
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equation. The method represents one of the oldest and best-known pseudorandom number generator algorithms. The theory behind them is relatively easy to understand...
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2^{2000000}} . As with all pseudorandom number generators, the resulting sequences are functions of the supplied seed values. An MWC generator is a special form...
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Inversive congruential generators are a type of nonlinear congruential pseudorandom number generator, which use the modular multiplicative inverse (if...
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theory) PCP theorem (computational complexity theory) Pseudorandom generator theorem (computational complexity theory) Quantum threshold theorem (computer...
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congruential methods of generating uniform pseudorandom numbers in the interval [0,1) is the Inversive congruential generator with prime modulus. A generalization...
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Blum Blum Shub (redirect from Blum-Blum-Shub pseudorandom number generator)
Blum Blum Shub (B.B.S.) is a pseudorandom number generator proposed in 1986 by Lenore Blum, Manuel Blum and Michael Shub that is derived from Michael...
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Lehmer random number generator (named after D. H. Lehmer), sometimes also referred to as the Park–Miller random number generator (after Stephen K. Park...
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Xorshift (category Pseudorandom number generators)
Xorshift random number generators, also called shift-register generators, are a class of pseudorandom number generators that were invented by George Marsaglia...
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RSA Factoring Challenge Pseudorandom number generator Pseudorandomness Cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generator Middle-square method Blum...
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Prime number (redirect from Euclidean prime number theorem)
2^{16}} . Prime numbers are also used in pseudorandom number generators including linear congruential generators and the Mersenne Twister. Prime numbers...
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In cryptography, a pseudorandom permutation (PRP) is a function that cannot be distinguished from a random permutation (that is, a permutation selected...
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number theory, Marsaglia's theorem connects modular arithmetic and analytic geometry to describe the flaws with the pseudorandom numbers resulting from a...
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Wichmann–Hill (category Pseudorandom number generators)
Wichmann–Hill is a pseudorandom number generator proposed in 1982 by Brian Wichmann and David Hill. It consists of three linear congruential generators with different...
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Asymptotic equipartition property (redirect from Shannon–McMillan–Breiman theorem)
equipartition, but these are unlikely. In the field of pseudorandom number generation, a candidate generator of undetermined quality whose output sequence lies...
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medians (a linear time selection algorithm), the Blum Blum Shub pseudorandom number generator, the Blum–Goldwasser cryptosystem, and more recently CAPTCHAs...
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recurrence relation used by a linear congruential generator, a poor-quality pseudorandom number generator: r i = ( a r i − 1 + c ) mod m {\displaystyle...
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random choices. Generally, for such random choices, one uses a pseudorandom number generator, but one may also use some external physical process, such as...
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which rely on random input (such as from random number generators or pseudorandom number generators), are important techniques in science, particularly in...
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uncovered by the two groups results from situations where the pseudorandom number generator is poorly seeded initially, and then is reseeded between the...
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Hard-core predicate (redirect from Goldreich-Levin theorem)
hard to invert). Hard-core predicates give a way to construct a pseudorandom generator from any one-way permutation. If b is a hard-core predicate of a...
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Feedback with Carry Shift Registers (category Pseudorandom number generators)
invented them), and in generating pseudorandom numbers for quasi-Monte Carlo (under the name Multiply With Carry (MWC) generator - invented by Couture and L'Ecuyer...
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Fermat number (section Pseudorandom number generation)
interest in data encryption for this reason. This method produces only pseudorandom values, as after P − 1 repetitions, the sequence repeats. A poorly chosen...
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Law of the iterated logarithm (category Theorems in statistics)
holds for polynomial time pseudorandom sequences also. The Java-based software testing tool tests whether a pseudorandom generator outputs sequences that...
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the source. An extractor has some conceptual similarities with a pseudorandom generator (PRG), but the two concepts are not identical. Both are functions...
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In September 1949, he presented the pseudorandom number generator now known as the Lehmer random number generator. D. H. Lehmer wrote the article "The...
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applications of cycle detection include testing the quality of pseudorandom number generators and cryptographic hash functions, computational number theory...
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