A high-speed oscillator-based truly random number source for cryptographic applications on a smart card IC

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 403-409

  Bucci, Marco ^a   Germani, Lucia ^a   Luzzi, Raimondo ^b   Trifiletti, Alessandro ^c   Varanonuovo, Mario ^c  

^a Rome CryptoDesign Center   (Italy)

^b INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AG   (Austria)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Jittered oscillator; Noise source; Random number generator; Smart cards

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CRYPTOGRAPHY; JITTER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROCONTROLLERS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION; THERMAL NOISE;

JITTERED OSCILLATOR; NOISE SOURCE;

SMART CARDS;

EID: 0037624944     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2003.1190581     Document Type: Article

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