Brains and pseudorandom generators
Dynamical Systems
2016-03-08 v3 Cryptography and Security
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Numerical Analysis
Abstract
In a pioneering classic, Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts proposed a model of the central nervous system; motivated by EEG recordings of normal brain activity, Chv\' atal and Goldsmith asked whether or not this model can be engineered to provide pseudorandom number generators. We supply evidence suggesting that the answer is negative.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1311.6531,
title = {Brains and pseudorandom generators},
author = {Vašek Chvátal and Mark Goldsmith and Nan Yang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.6531},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
This paper misinterprets the notion of a pseudorandom generator. For this reason, it has been withdrawn by the authors. Its main result, interpreted in terms of pseudorandom functions, reappears in arXiv:1603.01573 [math.DS]