2 papers
cs.DS2021
A New Test for Hamming-Weight Dependencies
David Blackman, Sebastiano Vigna
We describe a new statistical test for pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs). Our test can find bias induced by dependencies among the Hamming weights of the outputs of a PRNG, ev…
cs.DS2018
Scrambled Linear Pseudorandom Number Generators
David Blackman, Sebastiano Vigna
-linear pseudorandom number generators are very popular due to their high speed, to the ease with which generators with a sizable state space can be created, and to th…