Method for generating pseudo random numbers based on cellular neural network

Abstract

To overcome the degradation characteristics of chaos system due to finite precision effect and improve the sta-tistical performance of the random number,a new method based on 6th-order cellular neural network (CNN) was given to construct a 64-bit pseudo random number generation (PRNG).In the method,the input and output data in every iteration of 6th-order CNN were controlled to improved the performance of the random number affected by chaos degradation.Then the data were XORed with a variable parameter and the random sequences generated by a Logistic map,by which the repeat of generated sequences was avoided,and the period of output sequences and the key space were expended.Be-sides,the new method was easy to be realized in the software and could generate 64 bit random numbers every time,thus has a high generating efficiency.Test results show that the generated random numbers can pass the statistical test suite NIST SP800-22 completely and thus has good randomness.The method can be applied in secure communication and other fields of information security.

Keywords

• chaotic systems;6-CNN;Logistic map;PRNG