Generalized hardware post-processing technique for chaos-based pseudorandom number generators

Mohamed L. Barakat, Abhinav S. Mansingka, Ahmed Gomaa Radwan, Khaled N. Salama

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Abstract

This paper presents a generalized post-processing technique for enhancing the pseudorandomness of digital chaotic oscillators through a nonlinear XOR-based operation with rotation and feedback. The technique allows full utilization of the chaotic output as pseudorandom number generators and improves throughput without a significant area penalty. Digital design of a third-order chaotic system with maximum function nonlinearity is presented with verified chaotic dynamics. The proposed post-processing technique eliminates statistical degradation in all output bits, thus maximizing throughput compared to other processing techniques. Furthermore, the technique is applied to several fully digital chaotic oscillators with performance surpassing previously reported systems in the literature. The enhancement in the randomness is further examined in a simple image encryption application resulting in a better security performance. The system is verified through experiment on a Xilinx Virtex 4 FPGA with throughput up to 15.44 Gbit/s and logic utilization less than 0.84% for 32-bit implementations. © 2013 ETRI.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)448-458
Number of pages11
JournalETRI Journal
Volume35
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 1 2013

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KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • General Computer Science

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