A Pseudo Random Number Generator in Mobile Agent Interactions

The current trend of computer technology is towards secure computation and communication between parties which requires strong cryptography algorithms, especially with agent based issues. Since random number generators are the main constituents of such algorithms and autonomous actions, they are required to be fast and adequately secure. Although there are some good quality and fast approaches, most of them either use large primes (which are hard to handle) or the cost of getting data from the source is very high. With respect to these drawbacks and considering current expectations, a fast and easy way to implement pseudo random number generator (PRNG) and its application in mobile agent environment is proposed. The proposed approach uses Java garbage collector data to generate the key of the polymorphic encryption and decryption (PED) encryption algorithm. Since garbage collector is run by Java virtual machine as default, no additional computation is required. According to the test conducted, it has high entropy and hashes of the garbage collector outputs are unique