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Since the work of Ferrenberg et al.[PRL 69, (1992)] some pseudo random number generators are known to yield wrong results in cluster Monte Carlo simulations. In this contribution the fundamental mechanism behind this failure is discussed.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephan Mertens , Heiko Bauke

The aim of this paper is to present a new design for a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) that is cryptographically secure, passes all of the usual statistical tests referenced in the literature and hence generates high quality random…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Juan Di Mauro , Eduardo Salazar , Hugo D. Scolnik

Recently, a plethora of works have proposed inference-time algorithms (e.g. best-of-n), which incorporate verifiers to assist the generation process. Their quality-efficiency trade-offs have been empirically benchmarked on a variety of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Edoardo Botta , Yuchen Li , Aashay Mehta , Jordan T. Ash , Cyril Zhang , Andrej Risteski

Generating secure random numbers is a central problem in cryptography that needs a reliable source of enough computing entropy. Without enough entropy available - meaning no good source of secure random numbers - a device is susceptible to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-02 JV Roig

Quantum random number generators can provide genuine randomness by appealing to the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics. In general, a physical generator contains two parts---a randomness source and its readout. The source is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-01 Zhu Cao , Hongyi Zhou , Xiao Yuan , Xiongfeng Ma

A quantum random number generator (QRNG) as a genuine source of randomness is essential in many applications, such as number simulation and cryptography. Recently, a source-independent quantum random number generator (SI-QRNG), which can…

Internet communication systems involving cryptography and data hiding often require billions of random numbers. In addition to the speed of the algorithm, the quality of the pseudo-random number generator and the ease of its implementation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Jacques M. Bahi , Xiaole Fang , Christophe Guyeux

In this work we present a model for computation of random processes in digital computers which solves the problem of periodic sequences and hidden errors produced by correlations. We show that systems with non-invertible non-linearities can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Monica A. Garcia-Nustes , Leonardo Trujillo , Jorge A. Gonzalez

Randomness, mainly in the form of random numbers, is the fundamental prerequisite for the security of many cryptographic tasks. Quantum randomness can be extracted even if adversaries are fully aware of the protocol and even control the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-24 Wen-Bo Liu , Yu-Shuo Lu , Yao Fu , Si-Cheng Huang , Ze-Jie Yin , Kun Jiang , Hua-Lei Yin , Zeng-Bing Chen

A block cipher is intended to be computationally indistinguishable from a random permutation of appropriate domain and range. But what are the properties of a random permutation? By the aid of exponential and ordinary generating functions,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-09 Nicolas T. Courtois , Gregory V. Bard , Shaun V. Ault

In this paper, a new chaotic pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) is proposed. It combines the well-known ISAAC and XORshift generators with chaotic iterations. This PRNG possesses important properties of topological chaos and can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-12-22 Christophe Guyeux , Qianxue Wang , Jacques M. Bahi

This article is meant to provide an additional point of view, applying known knowledge, to supply keys that have a series of non-repeating digits, in a manner that is not usually thought of. Traditionally, prime numbers are used in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-07-02 Givon Zirkind

Cryptographic algorithms and protocols often need unique random numbers as parameters (e.g. nonces). Failure to satisfy this requirement lead to vulnerable implementation and can result in security breach. We show how linear types and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Richard Ostertág

The sequences produced by the cryptographic sequence generator known as the shrinking generator can be modelled as the output sequences of linear elementary cellular automata. These sequences are composed of interleaved m-sequences produced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Sara D. Cardell , Amparo Fúster-Sabater

It is well-known that the quality of random number generators can often be improved by combining several generators, e.g. by summing or subtracting their results. In this paper we investigate the ratio of two random number generators as an…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Michael Kolonko , Zijun Wu , Feng Gu

We present an iterative approach to constructing pseudorandom generators, based on the repeated application of mild pseudorandom restrictions. We use this template to construct pseudorandom generators for combinatorial rectangles and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-10-02 Parikshit Gopalan , Raghu Meka , Omer Reingold , Luca Trevisan , Salil Vadhan

Pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) are essential in a wide range of applications, from cryptography to statistical simulations and optimization algorithms. While uniform randomness is crucial for security-critical areas like…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Jianan Wu , Ahmet Yusuf Salim , Eslam Elmitwalli , Selçuk Köse , Zeljko Ignjatovic

This article is meant to provide an additional point of view, applying known knowledge, to supply keys that have a series of non-repeating digits, in a manner that is not usually thought of. Traditionally, prime numbers are used in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-07-06 Givon Zirkind

We had recently shown that every positive integer can be represented uniquely using a recurrence sequence, when certain restrictions on the digit strings are satisfied. We present the details of how such representations can be used to build…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Nathan Hamlin , Bala Krishnamoorthy , William Webb

The spectral test of random number generators (R.R. Coveyou and R.D. McPherson, 1967) is generalized. The sequence of random numbers is analyzed explicitly not just via their n-tupel distributions. The generalized analysis of many…

Computational Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Oliver Schnetz