Uniform Distribution Theory
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Journal

Uniform Distribution Theory


Volume
& Issue

Volume 6, Issue 1


Published
on

April 6, 2011


Pages

127-142


DOI

Article

On the Distribution of the Subset Sum Pseudorandom Number Generator on Elliptic Curves


Authors

Simon R. Blackburn Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics Royal Holloway, University of London Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, U. K.
, Alina Ostafe Affiliation:
Department of Computing Macquarie University Sydney, NSW 2109, AUSTRALIA
and Igor E. Shparlinski Affiliation:
Department of Computing Macquarie University Sydney, NW 2109 AUSTRALIA


Abstract

Given a prime p, an elliptic curve E/F p over the finite field F p of p ∞ elements and a binary linear recurrence sequence (u(n)) n=1 of order r, we study the distribution of the sequence of points r−1 X u(n + j)Pj, n = 1, . . . , N, j=0 on average over all possible choices of F p-rational points P1, . . . , Pr on E. For a sufficiently large N we improve and generalise a previous result in this direction due to E. El Mahassni.


Keywords

Pseudorandom numbers, subset sum problem, knapsack, exponential sums.


Citation

Blackburn, S. R., Ostafe, A., & Shparlinski, I. E. (2011). On the distribution of the subset sum pseudorandom number generator on elliptic curves. Uniform Distribution Theory, 6(1), 127–142.

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