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    a hardware random number generator (HRNG), true random number generator (TRNG), non-deterministic random bit generator (NRBG), or physical random number...
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    hindsight but impossible to foresee. True random number generators can be hardware random-number generators (HRNGs), wherein each generation is a function...
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  • suite for random number generators Non-uniform random variate generation Hardware random number generator Random number generator attack Randomness TestU01...
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  • truly random values). Although sequences that are closer to truly random can be generated using hardware random number generators, pseudorandom number generators...
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    A random password generator is a software program or hardware device that takes input from a random or pseudo-random number generator and automatically...
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  • developments in hardware random number generator technology have challenged this. The generation of random numbers has many uses, such as for random sampling...
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  • A random seed (or seed state, or just seed) is a number (or vector) used to initialize a pseudorandom number generator. A pseudorandom number generator's...
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    A new feature was added to the Pentium III: a hardware-based random number generator. This hardware RNG uses multiple oscillators that mix their signals;...
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    systems, /dev/random and /dev/urandom are special files that provide random numbers from a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator (CSPRNG)...
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  • to a peer-to-peer hardware. Attacks are on the line in the network not the hardware itself. Designing a secure random number generator requires at least...
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    In 1999, a new feature was added to the Pentium III: a hardware-based random number generator. It has been described as "several oscillators combine their...
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  • RDRAND (redirect from ARCH RANDOM)
    RDRAND (for "read random") is an instruction for returning random numbers from an Intel on-chip hardware random number generator which has been seeded...
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    Lavarand (category Random number generation)
    Lavarand, also known as the Wall of Entropy, is a hardware random number generator designed by Silicon Graphics that worked by taking pictures of the patterns...
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  • selecting the random samples (with dice, cards, etc.). Nowadays, tables of random numbers have been replaced by computational random number generators. If carefully...
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    quantum safe network encryption, single photon counters, and hardware random number generators. It was founded in 2001 as a spin-off of the Group of Applied...
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  • also referred to as a cryptographic random number generator (CRNG). Most cryptographic applications require random numbers, for example: key generation...
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  • of nondeterminism is required, such as that provided by a hardware random number generator. Note that a negative answer to the P=NP problem would not...
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    (apparently) random behavior in systems: Randomness coming from the environment (for example, Brownian motion, but also hardware random number generators). Randomness...
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  • Global Consciousness Project (category Applications of randomness)
    project monitors a geographically distributed network of hardware random number generators in a bid to identify anomalous outputs that correlate with...
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    pseudorandom number generator is a deterministic algorithm, that is designed to produce sequences of numbers that behave as random sequences. A hardware random number...
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    RP2350 (category Educational hardware)
    Optional boot signing with protected OTP storage Hardware SHA-256 accelerator Hardware random number generator (TRNG) Peripherals: One USB 1.1 (LS & FS) controller...
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  • Clock drift (category Random number generation)
    the measurement will still produce fairly good random numbers. Most hardware random number generators such as the ones described above are fairly slow...
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    an acronym for "Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment" – is the name for a series of hardware random number generators developed for this application...
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    Diceware (category Random number generation)
    and other cryptographic variables using ordinary dice as a hardware random number generator. For each word in the passphrase, five rolls of a six-sided...
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    Hardware acceleration is the use of computer hardware designed to perform specific functions more efficiently when compared to software running on a general-purpose...
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    entropy pools for hardware random number generators. The XOR operation preserves randomness, meaning that a random bit XORed with a non-random bit will result...
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    Even those generators that are suitable for normal cryptographic use, including /dev/random and many hardware random number generators, may make some...
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  • Non-physical true random number generator (NPTRNG), also known as non-physical nondeterministic random bit generator is a true random number generator that does...
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    A linear congruential generator (LCG) is an algorithm that yields a sequence of pseudo-randomized numbers calculated with a discontinuous piecewise linear...
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  • implementations. Many Intel firmware hubs on i386 motherboards provide a hardware random number generator, and where possible this facility is used to provide entropy...
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