Chaos machine

In mathematics, a chaos machine is a class of algorithms constructed on the base of chaos theory (mainly deterministic chaos) to produce pseudo-random oracle. It presents the idea to create a universal scheme with modular design and customizable parameters, that can be applied where randomness and sensitiveness is needed.

Theoretical model was published in early 2015 by 16-year-old Maciej A. Czyzewski. It was designed specifically to combine the benefits of hash function and pseudo-random function. However, it can be used to implement many cryptographic primitives, including cryptographic hashes, message authentication codes and randomness extractors.

See also

• Merkle–Damgård construction
• Sponge function

External links

• Chaos Machine: Theory