A stochastical model and its analysis for a physical random number generator presented at CHES 2002

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2898, Issue , 2003, Pages 276-289

  Schindler, Werner ^a  

^a Federal Office for Information Security   (Germany)

Author keywords

AIS 31; Entropy; Stochastical model; True (physical) random number generator

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION; ENTROPY; NUMBER THEORY;

GENERAL DESIGNS; PHYSICAL RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS; UNCONDITIONALLY SECURE;

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

EID: 35248887683     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-40974-8_22     Document Type: Article

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