Entropy (computing)

A 3.3-Gb/s SPAD-Based Quantum Random Number Generator

Edoardo Charbon, Francesco Gramuglia, Pouyan Keshavarzian

Quantum random number generators (QRNGs) are a burgeoning technology used for a variety of applications, including modern security and encryption systems. Typical methods exploit an entropy source combined with an extraction or bit generation circuit in or ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Key Negotiation Downgrade Attacks on Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy

Daniele Antonioli

Bluetooth (BR/EDR) and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) are pervasive wireless technologies specified in the Bluetooth standard. The standard includes key negotiation protocols used to generate long-term keys (during pairing) and session keys (during secure conn ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Subthreshold Logic for Low-Area and Energy Efficient True Random Number Generator

Maher Kayal, Mathieu Yves Hervé Coustans, Stéphane Christian Olivier Terrier

This paper discusses the advantages of subthreshold logic for True Random Number Generators (TRNG). In this work, the entropy is modeled, and a lower bound of Shannon's entropy per output bit can quickly be estimated. Thanks to this model, sizing TRNGs in ...

IEEE2018

Scalable Bias-Resistant Distributed Randomness

Bryan Alexander Ford, Philipp Svetolik Jovanovic, Linus Gasser, Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias, Nicolas Gailly, Ismail Khoffi

Bias-resistant public randomness is a critical component in many (distributed) protocols. Existing solutions do not scale to hundreds or thousands of participants, as is needed in many decentralized systems. We propose two large-scale distributed protocols ...

IEEE2017

Is an irng singly generated as an ideal?

Nicolas Monod

Recall that a rng is a ring which is possibly non-unital. In this note, we address the problem whether every finitely generated idempotent rng (abbreviated as irng) is singly generated as an ideal. It is well-known that it is the case for a commutative irn ...

World Scientific Publishing2012