The Effect of Using Multi-Scroll Chaotic Systems on Chaos-Based Random Number Generators’ Performance

Chaotic and hyper-chaotic systems are used in various engineering applications such as encryption, communication, and artificial intelligence. Also, chaotic systems are widely used in chaos-based random number generator (RNG) designs as chaotic system signals are not periodic and produce different values continuously. Since multi-scroll chaotic systems (MSCSs) produce more than one scroll, the output values can take more different values than chaotic systems. In this study, the effects of different directional values and/or different numbers of scrolls of multi-scroll chaotic systems on chaos-based random number generators’ performance are investigated with NIST 800-22 (National Institute of Standards and Technology) and correlation coefficient tests. As a result of the research, it has been concluded that the use of multi-scroll chaotic systems with different directional values and/or different numbers of scrolls does not always have a direct positive effect on the performance of chaos-based random number generators. Thus, it is necessary to use a special pre-process method that will vary according to the multi-scroll chaotic system to be used for chaos-based RNG designs with good performance.