Post-Processing Free Spatio-Temporal Optical Random Number Generator Resilient to Hardware Failure and Signal Injection Attacks

Mario Stipčević; John Bowers

doi:10.1364/OE.23.011619

Post-Processing Free Spatio-Temporal Optical Random Number Generator Resilient to Hardware Failure and Signal Injection Attacks

Quantum Physics 2015-05-21 v2

Authors: Mario Stipčević , John Bowers

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Abstract

We present a random number generator based on quantum effects in photonic emission and detection. It is unique in simultaneous use of both spatial and temporal quantum information contained in the system which makes it resilient to hardware failure and signal injection attacks. We show that its deviation from randomness cam be estimated based on simple measurements. Generated numbers pass NIST Statistical test suite without post-processing.

Keywords

random number generation quantum optics

Cite

@article{arxiv.1410.0724,
  title  = {Post-Processing Free Spatio-Temporal Optical Random Number Generator Resilient to Hardware Failure and Signal Injection Attacks},
  author = {Mario Stipčević and John Bowers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.0724},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

13 pages, 11 figures, 1 tablem 10 equations

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