True random numbers are here — what that means for data centers

Minimalist · Aug 21, 2017

But something recently changed all that. No, not yesterday or last week. But it was only back in November of last year that something called the Entropy Engine won an Oscar of Innovation award for collaborators Los Alamos National Laboratory and Whitewood Security. This Entropy Engine is capable of delivering as much as 350 Mbps of true random numbers—sufficient to feed an entire data center with enough random data to dramatically improve all cryptographic processes.

Tapping into the quantum physics of matter and light to provide a source of entopy, the Entropy Engine produces numbers that:

Cannot be predicted … ever

Are based on the random behavior of photons

Can be produced through something as small as a piece of Starburst sitting on a circuit board that looks, well, like a fairly standard circuit board

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https://www.networkworld.com/articl...re-here-what-this-can-mean-for-all-of-us.html

Minimalist · Apr 11, 2018

Boffins make quantum leap in true random number generation

A team of physicists claim to have developed a guaranteed random number generator using photons and the laws of quantum mechanics.

Random numbers are used to ensure secure communication and a good random number generator is essential for strong encryption. But ensuring that the numbers are truly random is difficult.

Number generators are often spawned from mathematical formulas or devices that can be tampered with. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a laboratory working as part of the US Department of Commerce, believe they have come up with a foolproof way to generate random numbers.
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/...mber_generator_thats_guaranteed_to_be_random/

EASTER · Apr 11, 2018

This is very interesting and exciting!! More should be forthcoming on it.

deBoetie · Apr 12, 2018

This work has been going on some years, and relates to the whole Bell test scene and quantum information theory. The challenges as ever are making the equipment cheap, reliable and stable enough, so that the bigger data centres can deploy them. Otherwise you're faced with the fun of securely distributing the feed and knowing that you can trust the source.

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