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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 1996
Filed:
Aug. 04, 1994
William A Aiello, Madison, NJ (US);
Sivaramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Boston, MA (US);
Ramarathnam Venkatesan, Morristown, NJ (US);
Bell Communications Research, Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method for generating random bits which is as fast as popular generators and which has provable strong properties. The method makes use of the unpredictability properties of a relatively slow cryptographically strong generator and the rapid mixing properties of random walks on expander graphs. Use of the cryptographically strong generator is typically restricted to a small off-line or a preprocessing step. Subsequent bits are produced with a few register operations per bit. The method and concomitant generator are useful in at least two different types of applications: for faster reliable simulations (or randomizing algorithms), and cryptographic/encryption schemes.