[Cryptech Tech] DRBG for the RNG?

[Joachim Strömbergson]

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Aloha!

=JeffH wrote:
> 
> I'm somewhat guessing, but there might be some useful info in this 
> relatively recent paper..
> 
> Akram, Raja Naeem, Konstantinos Markantonakis, and Keith Mayes. 
> "Pseudorandom Number Generation in Smart Cards: An Implementation, 
> Performance and Randomness Analysis." New Technologies, Mobility and 
> Security (NTMS), 2012 5th International Conference on. IEEE, 2012. 
> http://digirep.rhul.ac.uk/file/315c7a7e-4963-4a62-189f-4ad198a79f30/5/Paper.pdf

Yes,
> 
a good one - thanks! Fig 4 is interesting and looks almost fishy. I
would not expect that SHA-1 would provide better randomness than
SHA-256. And DES vs AES.

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 Joachim Strömbergson          Secworks AB          joachim at secworks.se
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