Linear Congruential Generators Over Elliptic Curves

  • Authors:
  • Sean Hallgren

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Linear Congruential Generators Over Elliptic Curves
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Random numbers are useful in many applications such as Monte Carlo simulation, randomized algorithms, games, and password generation. It is important to be able to prove facts about pseudo-random number generators, both about the distribution and the predictability of the pseudo-random numbers. I discuss a pseudo-random number generator based on elliptic curves taken over finite fields. This class of generators can produce provably good pseudo-number generators. Also, I prove that the analog of a faster pseudo-random number generator embedded in an elliptic curve fails to produce good pseudo-random numbers.