A Proposed Method for Arabic Text Random Number Generator using Secret Sharing

Abstract

The Random Number Generators (RNG) are very important in a wide range of applications, the most popular one in security fields rely on the randomness of certain parameters and also in many other fields.
This paper proposed a new algorithm for generating a pseudo random number, based on using secret sharing method. The proposed method takes Arabic text as the seed which represents as the secret value of the secret sharing, then specify the length and range of RNG, after that generating several shares. These shares can be used as the random numbers. The test results show the proposed method has long period and proved the efficient using Arabic text as seed of the RNG.