JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 6(1): 212-225, doi: 10.3217/jucs-006-01-0212
Extractors for the Real World
expand article infoKundi Xue‡, Marius Zimand§
‡ School of Computer and Information Sciences, Georgia Southwestern State University, Americus, GA, United States of America§ Towson University, Towson, United States of America

Corresponding author: Kundi Xue ( kx@canes.gsw.edu )

© Kundi Xue, Marius Zimand.
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Citation: Xue K, Zimand M (2000) Extractors for the Real World. JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 6(1): 212-225. https://doi.org/10.3217/jucs-006-01-0212
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Abstract
Extractors are a special type of binary graphs that can be utilized to improve the quality of randomness sources that generate strings with small entropy. The paper explores constructions of extractors that are practical and easy to implement. Randomized and deterministic constructions are presented and compared with some previously known constructions that achieve very good asymptotical performances. One of our methods is shown to have a better behavior for reasonable values of the involved parameters. 1 C.S.Calude and G.Stefanescu (eds.). Automata, Logic, and Computability. Special issue dedicated to Professor Sergiu Rudeanu Festschrift.
Keywords
Random bits, source of randomness, extractors, hash functions