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  2. List of random number generators - Wikipedia

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    However, generally they are considerably slower (typically by a factor 2–10) than fast, non-cryptographic random number generators. These include: Stream ciphers. Popular choices are Salsa20 or ChaCha (often with the number of rounds reduced to 8 for speed), ISAAC, HC-128 and RC4. Block ciphers in counter mode.

  3. Pseudorandom number generator - Wikipedia

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    For example, squaring the number "1111" yields "1234321", which can be written as "01234321", an 8-digit number being the square of a 4-digit number. This gives "2343" as the "random" number. Repeating this procedure gives "4896" as the next result, and so on. Von Neumann used 10 digit numbers, but the process was the same.

  4. Universally unique identifier - Wikipedia

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    This means that the first hexadecimal digit in the third group always starts with a 4 in UUIDv4s. Visually, this looks like this xxxxxxxx-xxxx-Mxxx-Nxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx, where M is the UUID version field. The upper two or three bits of digit N encode the variant. For example, a random UUID version 4, variant 2 could be 8D8AC610-566D-4EF0-9C22 ...

  5. Pseudorandom noise - Wikipedia

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    A pseudo-noise code ( PN code) or pseudo-random-noise code ( PRN code) is one that has a spectrum similar to a random sequence of bits but is deterministically generated. The most commonly used sequences in direct-sequence spread spectrum systems are maximal length sequences, Gold codes, Kasami codes, and Barker codes. [4]

  6. Mersenne Twister - Wikipedia

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    Mersenne Twister. The Mersenne Twister is a general-purpose pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) developed in 1997 by Makoto Matsumoto (松本 眞) and Takuji Nishimura (西村 拓士). [1] [2] Its name derives from the choice of a Mersenne prime as its period length.

  7. Hardware random number generator - Wikipedia

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    A USB-pluggable hardware true random number generator. In computing, a hardware random number generator (HRNG), true random number generator (TRNG), non-deterministic random bit generator (NRBG), or physical random number generator is a device that generates random numbers from a physical process capable of producing entropy (in other words, the device always has access to a physical entropy ...

  8. Random seed - Wikipedia

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    Random seed. A random seed (or seed state, or just seed) is a number (or vector) used to initialize a pseudorandom number generator . For a seed to be used in a pseudorandom number generator, it does not need to be random. Because of the nature of number generating algorithms, so long as the original seed is ignored, the rest of the values that ...

  9. RDRAND - Wikipedia

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    RDRAND (for "read random") is an instruction for returning random numbers from an Intel on-chip hardware random number generator which has been seeded by an on-chip entropy source. [1] It is also known as Intel Secure Key Technology, [2] codenamed Bull Mountain. [3] Intel introduced the feature around 2012, and AMD added support for the ...