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What do we want from a pseudo-random sequence generator? Ideally, we would like a pseudo-random sequence generator to quickly produce, from short seeds, long sequences (of bits) that appear in every way to be generated by successive flips of a fair coin.
The final version of this paper contains the proofs of all theorems discussed here. It will appear in the SIAM Journal of Computing.
This work was supported in part by the Letts-Villard Chair, Mills College.
This work was supported in part by NSF grant MCS 82-04506.
This work was supported in part by NSF grant MCS 82-01287.
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Blum, L., Blum, M., Shub, M. (1983). Comparison of Two Pseudo-Random Number Generators. In: Chaum, D., Rivest, R.L., Sherman, A.T. (eds) Advances in Cryptology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0602-4_6
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