Efficient And Secure Pseudo-Random Number Generation

  • Authors:
  • U. V. Vazirani;V. V. Vazirani

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California;-

  • Venue:
  • SFCS '84 Proceedings of the 25th Annual Symposium onFoundations of Computer Science, 1984
  • Year:
  • 1984

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Abstract

Cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generators known so far suffer from the handicap of being inefficient; the most efficient ones can generate only one bit on each modular multiplication (n/sup 2/ steps). Blum, Blum and Shub ask the open problem of outputting even two bits securely. We state a simple condition, the XOR-Condition, and show that any generator satisfying this condition can output logn bits on each multiplication. We also show that the logn least significant bits of RSA, Rabin's Scheme, and the x/sup 2/ mod N generator satisfy boolean predicates of these bits are secure. Furthermore, we strengthen the security of the x/sup 2/ mod N generator, which being a Trapdoor Generator, has several applications, by proving it as hard as Factoring.