In real-time applications,unpredictable random numbers play a major role in providing cryptographic and encryption processes.Most of the existing random number generators are embedded with the complex nature of an amp...In real-time applications,unpredictable random numbers play a major role in providing cryptographic and encryption processes.Most of the existing random number generators are embedded with the complex nature of an amplifier,ring oscillators,or comparators.Hence,this research focused more on implementing a Hybrid Nature of a New Random Number Generator.The key objective of the proposed methodology relies on the utilization of True random number generators.The randomness is unpredictable.The additions of programmable delay lines will reduce the processing time and maintain the quality of randomizing.The performance comparisons are carried out with power,delay,and lookup table.The proposed architecture was executed and verified using Xilinx.The Hybrid TRNG is evaluated under simulation and the obtained results outperform the results of the conventional random generators based on Slices,area and Lookup Tables.The experimental observations show that the proposed Hybrid True Random Number Generator(HTRNG)offers high operating speed and low power consumption.展开更多
A new type of superconductive true random number generator (TRNG) based on a negative-inductance superconducting quantum interference device (nSQUID) is proposed. The entropy harnessed to generate random numbers comes...A new type of superconductive true random number generator (TRNG) based on a negative-inductance superconducting quantum interference device (nSQUID) is proposed. The entropy harnessed to generate random numbers comes from the phenomenon of symmetry breaking in the nSQUID. The experimental circuit is fabricated by the Nb-based lift-off process. Low-temperature tests of the circuit verify the basic function of the proposed TRNG. The frequency characteristics of the TRNG have been analyzed by simulation. The generation rate of random numbers is expected to achieve hundreds of megahertz to tens of gigahertz.展开更多
The intrinsic variability of memristor switching behavior can be used as a natural source of randomness,this variability is valuable for safe applications in hardware,such as the true random number generator(TRNG).How...The intrinsic variability of memristor switching behavior can be used as a natural source of randomness,this variability is valuable for safe applications in hardware,such as the true random number generator(TRNG).However,the speed of TRNG is still be further improved.Here,we propose a reliable Ag/SiNx/n-Si volatile memristor,which exhibits a typical threshold switching device with stable repeat ability and fast switching speed.This volatile-memristor-based TRNG is combined with nonlinear feedback shift register(NFSR)to form a new type of high-speed dual output TRNG.Interestingly,the bit generation rate reaches a high speed of 112 kb/s.In addition,this new TRNG passed all 15 National Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST)randomness tests without post-processing steps,proving its performance as a hardware security application.This work shows that the SiNx-based volatile memristor can realize TRNG and has great potential in hardware network security.展开更多
Superlattices in chaotic state can be used as a key part of a true random number generator. The chaotic characteristics of the signal generated in the superlattice are mostly affected by the parameters of the superlat...Superlattices in chaotic state can be used as a key part of a true random number generator. The chaotic characteristics of the signal generated in the superlattice are mostly affected by the parameters of the superlattice and the applied voltage, while the latter is easier to adjust. In this paper, the model of the superlattice is first established. Then, based on this model, the chaotic characteristics of the generated signal are studied under different voltages. The results demonstrate that the onset of chaos in the superlattice is typically accompanied by the mergence of multistability, and there are voltage intervals in each of which the generated signal is chaotic.展开更多
This paper proposes a well-performing hybrid-type truly quantum random number generator based on the time interval between two independent single-photon detection signals, which is practical and intuitive, and generat...This paper proposes a well-performing hybrid-type truly quantum random number generator based on the time interval between two independent single-photon detection signals, which is practical and intuitive, and generates the initial random number sources from a combination of multiple existing random number sources. A time-to-amplitude converter and multichannel analyzer are used for qualitative analysis to demonstrate that each and every step is random. Furthermore, a carefully designed data acquisition system is used to obtain a high-quality random sequence. Our scheme is simple and proves that the random number bit rate can be dramatically increased to satisfy practical requirements.展开更多
Random numbers generated by pseudo-random and true random number generators (TRNG) are used in a wide variety of important applications. A TRNG relies on a non-deterministic source to sample random numbers. In this pa...Random numbers generated by pseudo-random and true random number generators (TRNG) are used in a wide variety of important applications. A TRNG relies on a non-deterministic source to sample random numbers. In this paper, we improve the post-processing stage of TRNGs using a heuristic evolutionary algorithm. Our post-processing algorithm decomposes the problem of improving the quality of random numbers into two phases: (i) Exact Histogram Equalization: it modifies the random numbers distribution with a specified output distribution;(ii) Stationarity Enforcement: using genetic algorithms, the output of (ii) is permuted until the random numbers meet wide-sense stationarity. We ensure that the quality of the numbers generated from the genetic algorithm is within a specified level of error defined by the user. We parallelize the genetic algorithm for improved performance. The post-processing is based on the power spectral density of the generated numbers used as a metric. We propose guideline parameters for the evolutionary algorithm to ensure fast convergence, within the first 100 generations, with a standard deviation over the specified quality level of less than 0.45. We also include a TestU01 evaluation over the random numbers generated.展开更多
Unpredictable and irreproducible digital keys are required to modulate security-related information in secure communication systems.True random number generators(TRNGs)rather than pseudorandom number generators(PRNGs)...Unpredictable and irreproducible digital keys are required to modulate security-related information in secure communication systems.True random number generators(TRNGs)rather than pseudorandom number generators(PRNGs)are required for the highest level of security.TRNG is a significant component in the digital security realm for extracting unpredictable binary bitstreams.Presently,most TRNGs extract high-quality“noise”from unpredictable physical random phenomena.Thus,these applications must be equipped with external hardware for collecting entropy and converting them into a random digital sequence.This study introduces a lightweight and efficient true random number generator(LETRNG)that uses the inherent randomness of a central processing unit(CPU)and an operating system(OS)as the source of entropy.We then utilize a lightweight post-processing method based on XOR and fair coin operation to generate an unbiased random binary sequence.Evaluations based on two famous test suites(NIST and ENT)show that LETRNG is perfectly capable of generating high-quality random numbers suitable for various GNU/Linux systems.展开更多
Internet of Things is an ecosystem of interconnected devices that are accessible through the internet.The recent research focuses on adding more smartness and intelligence to these edge devices.This makes them suscept...Internet of Things is an ecosystem of interconnected devices that are accessible through the internet.The recent research focuses on adding more smartness and intelligence to these edge devices.This makes them susceptible to various kinds of security threats.These edge devices rely on cryptographic techniques to encrypt the pre-processed data collected from the sensors deployed in the field.In this regard,block cipher has been one of the most reliable options through which data security is accomplished.The strength of block encryption algorithms against different attacks is dependent on its nonlinear primitive which is called Substitution Boxes.For the design of S-boxes mainly algebraic and chaos-based techniques are used but researchers also found various weaknesses in these techniques.On the other side,literature endorse the true random numbers for information security due to the reason that,true random numbers are purely non-deterministic.In this paper firstly a natural dynamical phenomenon is utilized for the generation of true random numbers based S-boxes.Secondly,a systematic literature review was conducted to know which metaheuristic optimization technique is highly adopted in the current decade for the optimization of S-boxes.Based on the outcome of Systematic Literature Review(SLR),genetic algorithm is chosen for the optimization of s-boxes.The results of our method validate that the proposed dynamic S-boxes are effective for the block ciphers.Moreover,our results showed that the proposed substitution boxes achieve better cryptographic strength as compared with state-of-the-art techniques.展开更多
This paper presents a wide supply voltage range, high speed true random number generator（TRNG） based on ring oscillators, which have different prime number of inverters. And a simple Von Neumann corrector as post pr...This paper presents a wide supply voltage range, high speed true random number generator（TRNG） based on ring oscillators, which have different prime number of inverters. And a simple Von Neumann corrector as post processing is also realized to improve data randomness. Prototypes have been implemented and fabricated in 0.18 μm complementary metal oxide semiconductor（CMOS） technology with a wide range of supply voltage from 1.8 V to 3.6 V. The circuit occupies 4 500 μm2, and dissipates minimum 160 μW of power with sampling frequency of 20 MHz. Output bit rate range is from 100 kbit/s to 20 Mbit/s. Statistical test results, which were achieved from the die Hard battery of tests, demonstrate that output random numbers have a well characteristic of randomness.展开更多
Lightweight Cryptography(LWC)is widely used to provide integrity,secrecy and authentication for the sensitive applications.However,the LWC is vulnerable to various constraints such as high-power consumption,time consu...Lightweight Cryptography(LWC)is widely used to provide integrity,secrecy and authentication for the sensitive applications.However,the LWC is vulnerable to various constraints such as high-power consumption,time consumption,and hardware utilization and susceptible to the malicious attackers.In order to overcome this,a lightweight block cipher namely PRESENT architecture is proposed to provide the security against malicious attacks.The True Random Number Generator-Pseudo Random Number Generator(TRNG-PRNG)based key generation is proposed to generate the unpredictable keys,being highly difficult to predict by the hackers.Moreover,the hardware utilization of PRESENT architecture is optimized using the Dual port Read Only Memory(DROM).The proposed PRESENT-TRNGPRNG architecture supports the 64-bit input with 80-bit of key value.The performance of the PRESENT-TRNG-PRNG architecture is evaluated by means of number of slice registers,flip flops,number of slices Look Up Table(LUT),number of logical elements,slices,bonded input/output block(IOB),frequency,power and delay.The input retrieval performances analyzed in this PRESENT-TRNG-PRNG architecture are Peak Signal to Noise Ratio(PSNR),Structural Similarity Index(SSIM)and Mean-Square Error(MSE).The PRESENT-TRNG-PRNG architecture is compared with three different existing PRESENT architectures such as PRESENT On-TheFly(PERSENT-OTF),PRESENT Self-Test Structure(PRESENT-STS)and PRESENT-Round Keys(PRESENT-RK).The operating frequency of the PRESENT-TRNG-PRNG is 612.208 MHz for Virtex 5,which is high as compared to the PRESENT-RK.展开更多
作为密码应用核心要素,真随机数发挥着不可替代的作用.为保证其质量,真随机数大多基于随机物理现象构造的熵源产生,这也使得其易遭受由环境引入或攻击者恶意施加的扰动影响,进而对密码应用安全产生威胁.为确保真随机数的质量,当前各主...作为密码应用核心要素,真随机数发挥着不可替代的作用.为保证其质量,真随机数大多基于随机物理现象构造的熵源产生,这也使得其易遭受由环境引入或攻击者恶意施加的扰动影响,进而对密码应用安全产生威胁.为确保真随机数的质量,当前各主要国际标准均明确要求真随机数发生器(True Random Number Generator,TRNG)应针对熵源生成的原始随机数(raw random numbers)提供在线监测功能.然而,由于现有在线监测大多基于抽样统计方法构建,导致其在实际应用中存在实现复杂、耗费资源大等问题;另一方面,由于统计模型偏差及熵源输出分布受扰动因素影响等原因,使得现有在线监测方法普遍存在过估计问题.本文以当前广泛采用的振荡环熵源为对象,对扰动场景下熵源特性变异成因及影响进行了深入分析,提出了用于刻画熵源特性的异源同构周期计数差表征方法,并结合变异阈值的标定,构建了具备高准确度、强实时性的熵源在线监测方法.与当前各主要在线监测方法相比,该方法在资源耗费方面具有明显优势,能够实时反映扰动场景下熵源在噪声分量、扰动感应耦合等方面的变异情况,实现对TRNG健康特性的有效监测.展开更多
通过对频率抖动机理的研究,提出一种基于压控振荡器(Voltage-Controlled Oscillator,VCO)的真随机数发生器(True Random Number Generator,TRNG)设计方案.该方案将电阻热噪声放大后作为VCO的控制信号使其振荡频率在中心频率附近随机抖动...通过对频率抖动机理的研究,提出一种基于压控振荡器(Voltage-Controlled Oscillator,VCO)的真随机数发生器(True Random Number Generator,TRNG)设计方案.该方案将电阻热噪声放大后作为VCO的控制信号使其振荡频率在中心频率附近随机抖动. VCO所产生的慢振荡信号对周期固定的快振荡信号采样生成原始随机序列,然后利用后处理电路提高序列均匀性并消除自相关性.通过热噪声发生器调节VCO的中心频率可实现序列比特率和随机性之间的权衡.所提电路采用SMIC 55nm CMOS工艺设计,芯片面积0. 0124mm2,比特率10Mbps,平均功率0. 81mW.输出的随机序列通过NIST SP 800-22测试.展开更多
文摘In real-time applications,unpredictable random numbers play a major role in providing cryptographic and encryption processes.Most of the existing random number generators are embedded with the complex nature of an amplifier,ring oscillators,or comparators.Hence,this research focused more on implementing a Hybrid Nature of a New Random Number Generator.The key objective of the proposed methodology relies on the utilization of True random number generators.The randomness is unpredictable.The additions of programmable delay lines will reduce the processing time and maintain the quality of randomizing.The performance comparisons are carried out with power,delay,and lookup table.The proposed architecture was executed and verified using Xilinx.The Hybrid TRNG is evaluated under simulation and the obtained results outperform the results of the conventional random generators based on Slices,area and Lookup Tables.The experimental observations show that the proposed Hybrid True Random Number Generator(HTRNG)offers high operating speed and low power consumption.
基金Supported by the State Key Program for Basic Research of China under Grant No 2011CBA00304the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 60836001the Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program under Grant No 20131089314
文摘A new type of superconductive true random number generator (TRNG) based on a negative-inductance superconducting quantum interference device (nSQUID) is proposed. The entropy harnessed to generate random numbers comes from the phenomenon of symmetry breaking in the nSQUID. The experimental circuit is fabricated by the Nb-based lift-off process. Low-temperature tests of the circuit verify the basic function of the proposed TRNG. The frequency characteristics of the TRNG have been analyzed by simulation. The generation rate of random numbers is expected to achieve hundreds of megahertz to tens of gigahertz.
基金supported by the National Key R&D Plan“Nano Frontier”Key Special Project(Grant No.2021YFA1200502)Cultivation Projects of National Major R&D Project(Grant No.92164109)+12 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61874158,62004056,and 62104058)the Special Project of Strategic Leading Science and Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDB44000000-7)Key R&D Plan Projects in Hebei Province(Grant No.22311101D)Hebei Basic Research Special Key Project(Grant No.F2021201045)the Support Program for the Top Young Talents of Hebei Province(Grant No.70280011807)the Supporting Plan for 100 Excellent Innovative Talents in Colleges and Universities of Hebei Province(Grant No.SLRC2019018)the Interdisciplinary Research Program of Natural Science of Hebei University(No.DXK202101)the Institute of Life Sciences and Green Development(No.521100311)the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province(Nos.F2022201054 and F2021201022)the Outstanding Young Scientific Research and Innovation Team of Hebei University(Grant No.605020521001)the Special Support Funds for National High Level Talents(Grant No.041500120001)the Advanced Talents Incubation Program of the Hebei University(Grant Nos.521000981426,521100221071,and 521000981363)the Science and Technology Project of Hebei Education Department(Grant Nos.QN2020178 and QN2021026).
文摘The intrinsic variability of memristor switching behavior can be used as a natural source of randomness,this variability is valuable for safe applications in hardware,such as the true random number generator(TRNG).However,the speed of TRNG is still be further improved.Here,we propose a reliable Ag/SiNx/n-Si volatile memristor,which exhibits a typical threshold switching device with stable repeat ability and fast switching speed.This volatile-memristor-based TRNG is combined with nonlinear feedback shift register(NFSR)to form a new type of high-speed dual output TRNG.Interestingly,the bit generation rate reaches a high speed of 112 kb/s.In addition,this new TRNG passed all 15 National Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST)randomness tests without post-processing steps,proving its performance as a hardware security application.This work shows that the SiNx-based volatile memristor can realize TRNG and has great potential in hardware network security.
基金Project supported by the Fund from Xi’an High-tech Institute,China
文摘Superlattices in chaotic state can be used as a key part of a true random number generator. The chaotic characteristics of the signal generated in the superlattice are mostly affected by the parameters of the superlattice and the applied voltage, while the latter is easier to adjust. In this paper, the model of the superlattice is first established. Then, based on this model, the chaotic characteristics of the generated signal are studied under different voltages. The results demonstrate that the onset of chaos in the superlattice is typically accompanied by the mergence of multistability, and there are voltage intervals in each of which the generated signal is chaotic.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61178010 and 11374042)the Fund of State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications(Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications),Chinathe Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China(Grant No.bupt2014TS01)
文摘This paper proposes a well-performing hybrid-type truly quantum random number generator based on the time interval between two independent single-photon detection signals, which is practical and intuitive, and generates the initial random number sources from a combination of multiple existing random number sources. A time-to-amplitude converter and multichannel analyzer are used for qualitative analysis to demonstrate that each and every step is random. Furthermore, a carefully designed data acquisition system is used to obtain a high-quality random sequence. Our scheme is simple and proves that the random number bit rate can be dramatically increased to satisfy practical requirements.
文摘Random numbers generated by pseudo-random and true random number generators (TRNG) are used in a wide variety of important applications. A TRNG relies on a non-deterministic source to sample random numbers. In this paper, we improve the post-processing stage of TRNGs using a heuristic evolutionary algorithm. Our post-processing algorithm decomposes the problem of improving the quality of random numbers into two phases: (i) Exact Histogram Equalization: it modifies the random numbers distribution with a specified output distribution;(ii) Stationarity Enforcement: using genetic algorithms, the output of (ii) is permuted until the random numbers meet wide-sense stationarity. We ensure that the quality of the numbers generated from the genetic algorithm is within a specified level of error defined by the user. We parallelize the genetic algorithm for improved performance. The post-processing is based on the power spectral density of the generated numbers used as a metric. We propose guideline parameters for the evolutionary algorithm to ensure fast convergence, within the first 100 generations, with a standard deviation over the specified quality level of less than 0.45. We also include a TestU01 evaluation over the random numbers generated.
基金This work was partially supported by National Key R&D Program of China(No.2020YFC0832500)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Nos.lzujbky-2021-sp47,lzujbky-2020-sp02,lzujbky-2019-kb51,and lzujbky2018-k12)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61402210).We also gratefully acknowledge the support of NVIDIA Corporation with the donation of the Jetson-TX1 used for this research.
文摘Unpredictable and irreproducible digital keys are required to modulate security-related information in secure communication systems.True random number generators(TRNGs)rather than pseudorandom number generators(PRNGs)are required for the highest level of security.TRNG is a significant component in the digital security realm for extracting unpredictable binary bitstreams.Presently,most TRNGs extract high-quality“noise”from unpredictable physical random phenomena.Thus,these applications must be equipped with external hardware for collecting entropy and converting them into a random digital sequence.This study introduces a lightweight and efficient true random number generator(LETRNG)that uses the inherent randomness of a central processing unit(CPU)and an operating system(OS)as the source of entropy.We then utilize a lightweight post-processing method based on XOR and fair coin operation to generate an unbiased random binary sequence.Evaluations based on two famous test suites(NIST and ENT)show that LETRNG is perfectly capable of generating high-quality random numbers suitable for various GNU/Linux systems.
文摘Internet of Things is an ecosystem of interconnected devices that are accessible through the internet.The recent research focuses on adding more smartness and intelligence to these edge devices.This makes them susceptible to various kinds of security threats.These edge devices rely on cryptographic techniques to encrypt the pre-processed data collected from the sensors deployed in the field.In this regard,block cipher has been one of the most reliable options through which data security is accomplished.The strength of block encryption algorithms against different attacks is dependent on its nonlinear primitive which is called Substitution Boxes.For the design of S-boxes mainly algebraic and chaos-based techniques are used but researchers also found various weaknesses in these techniques.On the other side,literature endorse the true random numbers for information security due to the reason that,true random numbers are purely non-deterministic.In this paper firstly a natural dynamical phenomenon is utilized for the generation of true random numbers based S-boxes.Secondly,a systematic literature review was conducted to know which metaheuristic optimization technique is highly adopted in the current decade for the optimization of S-boxes.Based on the outcome of Systematic Literature Review(SLR),genetic algorithm is chosen for the optimization of s-boxes.The results of our method validate that the proposed dynamic S-boxes are effective for the block ciphers.Moreover,our results showed that the proposed substitution boxes achieve better cryptographic strength as compared with state-of-the-art techniques.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61376031)
文摘This paper presents a wide supply voltage range, high speed true random number generator（TRNG） based on ring oscillators, which have different prime number of inverters. And a simple Von Neumann corrector as post processing is also realized to improve data randomness. Prototypes have been implemented and fabricated in 0.18 μm complementary metal oxide semiconductor（CMOS） technology with a wide range of supply voltage from 1.8 V to 3.6 V. The circuit occupies 4 500 μm2, and dissipates minimum 160 μW of power with sampling frequency of 20 MHz. Output bit rate range is from 100 kbit/s to 20 Mbit/s. Statistical test results, which were achieved from the die Hard battery of tests, demonstrate that output random numbers have a well characteristic of randomness.
基金supported by the Xiamen University Malaysia Research Fund(XMUMRF)(Grant No:XMUMRF/2019-C3/IECE/0007).
文摘Lightweight Cryptography(LWC)is widely used to provide integrity,secrecy and authentication for the sensitive applications.However,the LWC is vulnerable to various constraints such as high-power consumption,time consumption,and hardware utilization and susceptible to the malicious attackers.In order to overcome this,a lightweight block cipher namely PRESENT architecture is proposed to provide the security against malicious attacks.The True Random Number Generator-Pseudo Random Number Generator(TRNG-PRNG)based key generation is proposed to generate the unpredictable keys,being highly difficult to predict by the hackers.Moreover,the hardware utilization of PRESENT architecture is optimized using the Dual port Read Only Memory(DROM).The proposed PRESENT-TRNGPRNG architecture supports the 64-bit input with 80-bit of key value.The performance of the PRESENT-TRNG-PRNG architecture is evaluated by means of number of slice registers,flip flops,number of slices Look Up Table(LUT),number of logical elements,slices,bonded input/output block(IOB),frequency,power and delay.The input retrieval performances analyzed in this PRESENT-TRNG-PRNG architecture are Peak Signal to Noise Ratio(PSNR),Structural Similarity Index(SSIM)and Mean-Square Error(MSE).The PRESENT-TRNG-PRNG architecture is compared with three different existing PRESENT architectures such as PRESENT On-TheFly(PERSENT-OTF),PRESENT Self-Test Structure(PRESENT-STS)and PRESENT-Round Keys(PRESENT-RK).The operating frequency of the PRESENT-TRNG-PRNG is 612.208 MHz for Virtex 5,which is high as compared to the PRESENT-RK.
文摘作为密码应用核心要素,真随机数发挥着不可替代的作用.为保证其质量,真随机数大多基于随机物理现象构造的熵源产生,这也使得其易遭受由环境引入或攻击者恶意施加的扰动影响,进而对密码应用安全产生威胁.为确保真随机数的质量,当前各主要国际标准均明确要求真随机数发生器(True Random Number Generator,TRNG)应针对熵源生成的原始随机数(raw random numbers)提供在线监测功能.然而,由于现有在线监测大多基于抽样统计方法构建,导致其在实际应用中存在实现复杂、耗费资源大等问题;另一方面,由于统计模型偏差及熵源输出分布受扰动因素影响等原因,使得现有在线监测方法普遍存在过估计问题.本文以当前广泛采用的振荡环熵源为对象,对扰动场景下熵源特性变异成因及影响进行了深入分析,提出了用于刻画熵源特性的异源同构周期计数差表征方法,并结合变异阈值的标定,构建了具备高准确度、强实时性的熵源在线监测方法.与当前各主要在线监测方法相比,该方法在资源耗费方面具有明显优势,能够实时反映扰动场景下熵源在噪声分量、扰动感应耦合等方面的变异情况,实现对TRNG健康特性的有效监测.
