A High-Speed IC Random-Number Source for Smartcard Microcontrollers

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1373-1380

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

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Elettronica SpA   (Italy)

^c INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Noise source; Offset zeroing; Random number generator; SmartCards

Indexed keywords

BIT SEQUENCES; OFFSET ZEROING;

ALGORITHMS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION; SMART CARDS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MICROCONTROLLERS;

EID: 0242527284     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2003.818610     Document Type: Article

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