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Pseudo-random generator

CA 2179497 C · Owner: Aiello, William Anthony · Inventors: Aiello, William Anthony; Venkatesan, Ramarathnam

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Methodology and concomitant circuitry to generate crytographically strong pseudo-random bit streams utilize secure block cypher encoders. Typically, each block cypher encoder (150) has a first seed (x?) and a random key (k) as an input. In the most basic realization of the methodology and circuitry, the ouput of each encoder is fed back (151) to connect to its input. The first seed serves as the initial input and each subsequent input is the immediate output. Each bit in the crytographically strong pseudo-random bit stream is related (160) to an inner product between each input to the encoder and a second seed (h).

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  • Filed January 18, 1995 and granted April 18, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 18, 2015.
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FiledJanuary 18, 1995
GrantedApril 18, 2000
Term endedJanuary 18, 2015
Patent numberCA 2179497 C
Classification (IPC)H04L9/22 +1 more

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