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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cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator (CSPRNG) or cryptographic pseudorandom number generator (CPRNG) is a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) with...
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This would be in contrast to so-called "random number generations" done by pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs), which generate numbers that only look...
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process is a computer algorithm called a pseudorandom number generator, which must first be provided with a number called a random seed. Since the same seed...
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algorithms are pseudorandom number generators. Cipher algorithms and cryptographic hashes can be used as very high-quality pseudorandom number generators. However...
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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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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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physical entropy source), unlike the pseudorandom number generator (PRNG, a.k.a. "deterministic random bit generator", DRBG) that utilizes a deterministic...
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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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random numbers can be created using a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator with a seed value known to the attacker but concealed in the...
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random number generation (CBRNG, also known as a counter-based pseudo-random number generator, or CBPRNG) is a kind of pseudorandom number generator that...
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/dev/random (category Random number generation)
/dev/urandom are special files that serve as cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generators (CSPRNGs). They allow access to a CSPRNG that is seeded with...
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Random seed (redirect from Random number seed)
seed) is a number (or vector) used to initialize a pseudorandom number generator. For a seed to be used in a pseudorandom number generator, it does not...
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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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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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Mersenne Twister (category Pseudorandom number generators)
The Mersenne Twister is a general-purpose pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) developed in 1997 by Makoto Matsumoto [ja] (松本 眞) and Takuji Nishimura...
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A permuted congruential generator (PCG) is a pseudorandom number generation algorithm developed in 2014 by Dr. M.E. O'Neill which applies an output permutation...
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Xoroshiro128+ (category Pseudorandom number generators)
(named after its operations: XOR, rotate, shift, rotate) is a pseudorandom number generator intended as a successor to xorshift+. Instead of perpetuating...
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NIST SP 800-90A (category Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generators)
specification for three allegedly cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generators for use in cryptography: Hash DRBG (based on hash functions)...
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In cryptography, the shrinking generator is a form of pseudorandom number generator intended to be used in a stream cipher. It was published in Crypto...
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cipher", including those based on a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator (CSPRNG). Frank Miller in 1882 was the first to describe the...
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programming Generator (computer programming), a routine that acts like an iterator Pseudorandom number generator, a producer of random numbers Code generator, part...
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Lavarand (category Random number generation)
to seed a pseudorandom number generator. Although the secondary part of the random number generation uses a pseudorandom number generator, the full process...
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Dual EC DRBG (redirect from Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator)
Deterministic Random Bit Generator) is an algorithm that was presented as a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator (CSPRNG) using methods...
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Fisher–Yates shuffle (section Pseudorandom generators)
Fisher–Yates shuffle is used with a pseudorandom number generator or PRNG: as the sequence of numbers output by such a generator is entirely determined by its...
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ciphers by generating blocks of a keystream (in place of a Pseudorandom number generator) and applying an XOR operation to each bit of the plaintext...
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The 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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Lagged Fibonacci generator (LFG or sometimes LFib) is an example of a pseudorandom number generator. This class of random number generator is aimed at being...
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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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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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