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Engineering Secure Devices
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Engineering Secure Devices

by Dominik Merli
July 2024
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
7h 54m
English
No Starch Press
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3RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS

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Randomness is the natural counterpart of determinism. While we want most device functionalities to follow the latter, random number generators (RNGs) are meant to extract the former. But is it even possible to yield random numbers within an integrated circuit (IC)? And if so, can we even describe “good” randomness with practical requirements?

Some people argue that true randomness is present only in quantum-mechanical processes (and they might be right), but quantum experiments are usually hard to carry out within a standard complementary metal–oxide semiconductor (CMOS) chip. On the other hand, many security applications ...

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