![]() What’s a latch? A latch, also known as a flip-flop, is an electrical circuit component which can store bits (1s or 0s). LFSRs are appropriate solutions for generating sequences of approximately random bits, with long cycle lengths so that they do not repeat often. They also see wide-spread use in scrambling radio frequencies, and some uses in cryptography (although it suffers from serious weaknesses). Maximal length and weight LFSRs are used in random number tests. The use of linear recurrences was a major advancement in the field of pseudorandom number generators, which began with the Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR). It can be created in both hardware and software, and its efficiency makes it a commonly studied architecture. Pseudo-random number generators needed to get more robust.Ī Linear Feedback Shift Register is a pseudorandom number generator based in electronic circuitry. It very quickly broke, however: this method tends to get stuck in cycles or move quickly to being ‘0000’. In response to his observation, von Neumann developed the “Middle-square method” in 1946, a simple mathematical sequence where an initial number (seed) is squared, and the middle 4 digits are taken and used as the next seed. ![]() “Anybody who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin” - John von Neumann
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