Method for seeding a pseudo-random number generator with a cryptographic hash of a digitization of a chaotic system (US Patent 5732138)

Patent number: 5732138 Granted: 1998-03-24 Filed: 1996-01-29 Inventors: Landon Curt Noll (Sunnyvale, CA, US); Robert G. Mende (Sunnyvale, CA, US); Sanjeev Sisodiya (Mountain View, CA, US) Assignees: Silicon Graphics, Inc. (Mountain View, CA, US)

Abstract

A method for generating a pseudo-random numbers Initially, the state of a chaotic system is digitized to form a binary string. This binary string is then hashed to produce a second binary string. It