Demonstration of 30 Gbit/s generation of superconductive true random number generator

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 21, Issue 3 PART 1, 2011, Pages 843-846

  Sugiura, Tatsuro ^a   Yamanashi, Yuki ^a   Yoshikawa, Nobuyuki ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Comparators; Josephson junctions; Random number generation; Superconducting integrated circuits

Indexed keywords

COMPARATORS; CRYPTOGRAPHIC APPLICATIONS; ELECTRONIC NOISE; GENERATION RATE; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH-SENSITIVITY; HIGH-SPEED OPERATION; JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; RANDOM BITS; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS; RANDOM NUMBERS; SUPERCONDUCTING INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NUMBER THEORY; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

EID: 79957940676     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2010.2092401     Document Type: Conference Paper

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