Pseudo-random number generation using a 3-state cellular automaton
Kamalika Bhattacharjee, Dipanjyoti Paul, Sukanta Kumar Das · International Journal of Modern Physics C · 2017
This paper investigates the potentiality of pseudo-random number generation of a 3-neighborhood 3-state cellular automaton (CA) under periodic boundary condition. Theoretical and empirical tests are performed on the numbers, generated by the CA, to observe the quality of it as pseudo-random number generator (PRNG). We analyze the strength and weakness of the proposed PRNG and conclude that the selected CA is a good random number generator.