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We study pseudorandomness properties of permutations on $\{0,1\}^n$ computed by random circuits made from reversible $3$-bit gates (permutations on $\{0,1\}^3$). Our main result is that a random circuit of depth $n \cdot \tilde{O}(k^2)$,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-02-13 William He , Ryan O'Donnell

We study the ability of Transformer models to learn sequences generated by Permuted Congruential Generators (PCGs), a widely used family of pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs). PCGs introduce substantial additional difficulty over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Tao Tao , Maissam Barkeshli

High quality random numbers are necessary in the modern world. Ranging from encryption keys in cyber security to models and simulations for scientific use: it's important that these random numbers are of high quality and quickly attainable.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Dmitriy Beznosko , Keith Driscoll , Fernando Guadarrama , Steven Mai , Nikolas Thornton

Pseudorandom error-correcting codes (PRC) is a novel cryptographic primitive proposed at CRYPTO 2024. Due to the dual capability of pseudorandomness and error correction, PRC has been recognized as a promising foundational component for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Tianrui Wang , Anyu Wang , Tianshuo Cong , Delong Ran , Jinyuan Liu , Xiaoyun Wang

Sub-categories of mathematical topology, like the mathematical theory of chaos, offer interesting applications devoted to information security. In this research work, we have introduced a new chaos-based pseudorandom number generator…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Mohammed Bakiri , Jean-François Couchot , Christophe Guyeux

Quantum Key Distribution(QKD) thrives to achieve perfect secrecy of One time Pad (OTP) through quantum processes. One of the crucial components of QKD are Quantum Random Number Generators(QRNG) for generation of keys. Unfortunately, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Arun Mishra , Kanaka Raju Pandiri , Anupama Arjun Pandit , Lucy Sharma

Pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) play an important role to ensure the security and confidentiality of image cryptographic algorithms. Their primary function is to generate a sequence of numbers that possesses unpredictability and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Takreem Haider , Saúl A. Blanco , Umar Hayat

This paper gives the first separation between the power of {\em formulas} and {\em circuits} of equal depth in the $\mathrm{AC}^0[\oplus]$ basis (unbounded fan-in AND, OR, NOT and MOD$_2$ gates). We show, for all $d(n) \le O(\frac{\log…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Benjamin Rossman , Srikanth Srinivasan

The recent line of study on randomness extractors has been a great success, resulting in exciting new techniques, new connections, and breakthroughs to long standing open problems in several seemingly different topics. These include seeded…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Xin Li

We give a pseudorandom generator that fools $m$-facet polytopes over $\{0,1\}^n$ with seed length $\mathrm{polylog}(m) \cdot \log n$. The previous best seed length had superlinear dependence on $m$. An immediate consequence is a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Ryan O'Donnell , Rocco A. Servedio , Li-Yang Tan

The library PRAND for pseudorandom number generation for modern CPUs and GPUs is presented. It contains both single-threaded and multi-threaded realizations of a number of modern and most reliable generators recently proposed and studied in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-02-18 L. Yu. Barash , L. N. Shchur

Linear-feedback shift register (LFSR) based pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) has applications in a plethora of fields. The issue of being linear is generally circumvented by introducing non-linearities as per the required applications,…

Emergence of stochastic simulations as an extensively used computational tool for scientific purposes intensified the need for more accurate ways of generating sufficiently long sequences of uncorrelated random numbers. Even though several…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2014-08-14 Ayse Ferhan Yesil , M. Cemal Yalabik

We consider the problem of efficiently enumerating the satisfying assignments to $\AC^0$ circuits. We give a zero-error randomized algorithm which takes an $\AC^0$ circuit as input and constructs a set of restrictions which partition…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Russell Impagliazzo , William Matthews , Ramamohan Paturi

We present an $O(\log d + \log\log_{m/n} n)$-time randomized PRAM algorithm for computing the connected components of an $n$-vertex, $m$-edge undirected graph with maximum component diameter $d$. The algorithm runs on an ARBITRARY CRCW…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-22 S. Cliff Liu , Robert E. Tarjan , Peilin Zhong

In this work, by employing a bitsliced data representation as building blocks of algorithms, we showcase the capability and scalability of our proposed method in a variety of PRNG methods in the category of block and stream ciphers. While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Saleh Khalaj Monfared , Omid Hajihassani , Soroush Meghdadi Zanjani , Mohammadsina Kiarostami , Dara Rahmati , Saeid Gorgin

This project develops a pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) using the logistic map, implemented in Verilog HDL on an FPGA and processes its output through a Central Limit Theorem (CLT) function to achieve a Gaussian distribution. The…

Pseudorandom bit generators (PRBG) can be designed to take the advantage of some hard number theoretic problems such as the discrete logarithm problem (DLP). Such type of generators will have good randomness and unpredictability properties…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-24 O. Reyad , M. E. Karar , K. Hamed

Quality randomness is fundamental to cryptographic operations but on embedded systems good sources are (seemingly) hard to find. Rather than use expensive custom hardware, our ERHARD-RNG Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) utilizes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Jacob Grycel , Robert J. Walls

In this paper we present a new pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) on graphics processing units (GPU). This PRNG is based on the so-called chaotic iterations. It is firstly proven to be chaotic according to the Devaney's formulation. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-12-23 Jacques M. Bahi , Raphaël Couturier , Christophe Guyeux , Pierre-Cyrille Héam