Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2003/051
How to Predict the Output of a Hardware Random Number Generator
Markus Dichtl
Abstract: A hardware random number generator was described at CHES 2002 by T. Tkacik.
In this paper, we analyze its method of generating randomness and,
as a consequence of the analysis, we describe how, in principle, an attack on the generator can be executed.
Category / Keywords: implementation / random number generator, randomness
Date: received 14 Mar 2003
Contact author: Markus Dichtl at siemens com
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Short URL: ia.cr/2003/051
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