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The Blum Blum Shub generator is a deterministic Pseudo-Random Bit Generator with security demonstrably reducible to that of integer factorization.

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Exploration of Blum Micali Security By Seed Size

I'm new to cryptography and am most intrigued by mathematically based pseudo random number generators. With reference to the Blum Micali algorithm: $X_{i+1} = G^{X_i} \bmod P$ can security be ...
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Chosen plaintext attack on Blum–Goldwasser cryptosystem

As I was reading on some encryption schemes the other day, I stumbled upon the Blum–Goldwasser cryptosystem and read that it is vulnerable to adaptive chosen ciphertext attack. I searched for some ...
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using non prime numbers in Blum Blum Shub or Blum Micali

I would like to use Blum Blum Shub, or Blum Micali methods as random number generators only. I am not interested in their encryption capabilities. I was wondering, if I replaced the prime numbers ...
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