A robust chaos-based true random number generator embedded in reconfigurable switched-capacitor hardware

Radioengineering

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 120-127

  Drutarovskỳ, Miloš ^a   Galajda, Pavol ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF KO ICE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Chaos; Cryptography; FIPS tests; Markov chains; PSoC mixed signal hardware; TRNG

Indexed keywords

EID: 44149101133     PISSN: 12102512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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