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On the Distribution of the Subset Sum Pseudorandom Number Generator on Elliptic Curves

Number Theory 2011-02-08 v1 Cryptography and Security

Abstract

Given a prime pp, an elliptic curve \E/\Fp\E/\F_p over the finite field \Fp\F_p of pp elements and a binary \lrs\ \(u(n)\)_{n =1}^\infty of order~rr, we study the distribution of the sequence of points j=0r1u(n+j)Pj,n=1,...,N, \sum_{j=0}^{r-1} u(n+j)P_j, \qquad n =1,..., N, on average over all possible choices of \Fp\F_p-rational points P1,...,PrP_1,..., P_r on~\E\E. For a sufficiently large NN we improve and generalise a previous result in this direction due to E.~El~Mahassni.

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@article{arxiv.1102.1053,
  title  = {On the Distribution of the Subset Sum Pseudorandom Number Generator on Elliptic Curves},
  author = {Simon R. Blackburn and Alina Ostafe and Igor E. Shparlinski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.1053},
  year   = {2011}
}