Choi, Y.; Yeom, Y.; Kang, J.-S. Practical Entropy Accumulation for Random Number Generators with Image Sensor-Based Quantum Noise Sources. Entropy2023, 25, 1056.
Choi, Y.; Yeom, Y.; Kang, J.-S. Practical Entropy Accumulation for Random Number Generators with Image Sensor-Based Quantum Noise Sources. Entropy 2023, 25, 1056.
Choi, Y.; Yeom, Y.; Kang, J.-S. Practical Entropy Accumulation for Random Number Generators with Image Sensor-Based Quantum Noise Sources. Entropy2023, 25, 1056.
Choi, Y.; Yeom, Y.; Kang, J.-S. Practical Entropy Accumulation for Random Number Generators with Image Sensor-Based Quantum Noise Sources. Entropy 2023, 25, 1056.
Abstract
The efficient generation of high-quality random numbers is essential in the operation of cryptographic modules. The quality of a random number generator is evaluated by the min-entropy of its entropy source. Typical method used to achieve high min-entropy of the output sequence is an entropy accumulation based on a hash function. This is grounded in the famous Leftover Hash Lemma which guarantees a lower bound on the min-entropy of the output sequence. However, the hash function based entropy accumulation has slow speed in general. For a practical perspective we need a new efficient entropy accumulation with the theoretical background for the min-entropy of the output sequence. In this work, we obtain the theoretical bound for the min-entropy of the output random sequence through the very efficient entropy accumulation using only bitwise XOR operations, where the input sequences from the entropy source are independent. Moreover we examine our theoretical results by applying to the quantum random number generator that uses dark noise arising from image sensor pixels as its entropy source.
Keywords
Entropy accumulation; Random Number Generator; Quantum random noises
Subject
Computer Science and Mathematics, Applied Mathematics
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