Practical seed-recovery for the PCG Pseudo-Random Number Generator
The Permuted Congruential Generators (PCG) are popular conventional (non-cryptographic) pseudo-random generators designed in 2014. They are used by default in the NumPy scientific computing package. Even though they are not of cryptographic strength, their designer stated that predicting their outp...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Ruhr-Universität Bochum
2020-09-01
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| Series: | IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology |
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| Online Access: | https://tosc.iacr.org/index.php/ToSC/article/view/8700 |