[Cryptech Core] ICFO Introduction

[Elie Benchimol]

Dear Joachim,

Thank you for your reply. I have copied Carlos on this email. He is the Ph.D student on the project who is the technical lead on this project.  

We would like to pursue your suggestion of using our QRNG as an entropy source.  How may we obtain the technical specifications to connect our device? 

Best,
Elie

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From: Joachim Strömbergson [mailto:joachim at secworks.se] 
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2016 8:49 AM
To: Elie Benchimol <Elie.Benchimol at icfo.eu>
Cc: core at cryptech.is
Subject: Re: [Cryptech Core] ICFO Introduction

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Hi Elie,

Elie Benchimol wrote:
> My name is Elie Benchimol and I am working with a group of scientists 
> at ICFO who have developed a fast and true quantum random number 
> generator.  I am a second year MBA student at IESE in Barcelona and 
> supporting the ICFO team during my studies.
> 
> I was speaking with a collaborator of your project, Roland van 
> Rijswijk (Surfnet), who suggested we connect to discuss a potential 
> collaboration.  We are seeking to understand the performance of 
> current random number generators in HSM modules and how our technology 
> may improve performance and security.  We published a whitepaper 
> briefly explaining our technology and our organization at the 
> following link:
> http://quantumtech.icfo.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ICFO_WhitePaper_UltraFast_QRNG.pdf.

Thank
> 
you for taking an interest in the Cryptech project. The Cryptech RNG is a hybrid RNG (see SP 800-90C) where entropy from physical processes are harvested, mixed and then used to seed a CSPRNG/DRBG. We don't use a NIST specified DRBG (SP 800-90A) such as CTR_DRBG, but instead use the stream cipher ChaCha20. This allows the Cryptech RNG to be able to generate very high quality random numbers at Gbps speeds.

The technology described in the WP could be integrated with Cryptech as an additional source of entropy for the random generator in Cryptech. I didn't however see any information about the bitrate nor results form tests using tools like Ent, Diheharder not NIST tests in SP 800-22, all commonly used to test entropy sources and random generators.

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Med vänlig hälsning, Yours

Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning.
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