Obtaining true-random binary numbers from a weak radioactive source

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3481, Issue II, 2005, Pages 634-646

  Alkassar, Ammar ^a   Nicolay, Thomas ^b   Rohe, Markus ^b  

^a Sirrix AG   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA PARTICLES; BINARY CODES; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DATA REDUCTION; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; SMOKE DETECTORS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ALPHA DECAY; RADIOACTIVE SOURCES; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR (RNG); STATISTICAL PROPERTIES;

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

EID: 24944471447     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/11424826_67     Document Type: Conference Paper

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