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Pseudorandom Recursions: Small and Fast Pseudorandom Number Generators for Embedded Applications

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Many new small and fast pseudorandom number generators are presented, which pass the most common randomness tests. They perform only a few, nonmultiplicative operations for each generated number, use very little memory, therefore, they are ideal for embedded applications. We present general methods to ensure very long cycles and show, how to create super fast, very small ciphers and hash functions from them.

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    Laszlo Hars

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    Gyorgy Petruska

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Hars, L., Petruska, G. Pseudorandom Recursions: Small and Fast Pseudorandom Number Generators for Embedded Applications. J Embedded Systems 2007, 098417 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/98417

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