Preliminaries of a Photon-based Hardware Random Number Generator Design and Data Analysis Methods
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Beznosko, Dmitriy
Driscoll, Keith
Guadarrama, Fernando
Mai, Steven
Thornton, Nikolas
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Today, when computer-based devices take over our lives, security becomes of the utmost concern. HRNG, or hardware random number generators, are extensively used in the digital world for security purposes as well as in the science world as a source of high-quality randomness for the models and simulations. Existing HRNG are either extremely costly, or slow and of questionable quality of data. This publication describes a simple design of the HRNG based on the low-number photon absorption by a detector (a photo-multiplier tube of a silicon-based photodetector) that can provide a large volume of high-quality random numbers. The different options of processing and the testing of quality of the generator output are described.
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Clayton State University