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Blum Blum Shub (BBS) is a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) invented by Lenore Blum, Manuel Blum, and Michael Shub. It is based on the mathematical properties of certain prime numbers and modular arithmetic. ### How it Works: 1. **Initialization**: - Select two distinct large prime numbers \( p \) and \( q \). - Compute \( n = p \times q \).

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