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Abstract: The generation of true random numbers is one of the most important tasks in a hardware security module (HSM), particularly for cryptography applications. The stochastic behavior of ...

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Abstract: We present a true random number generator (TRNG) using dark noise of a CMOS image sensor. Because the proposed TRNG is based on the dark characteristics of the CMOS image sensor, it does not ...

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A team including CU PREP researchers and scientists from CU Boulder and NIST have built the first random number generator using quantum entanglement to produce verifiable random numbers. Dubbed CURBy, ...