[Cryptech Tech] ICFO Introduction

[Peter Stuge]

Hi Elie, Carlos,

What's your business model for combining your QRNG with CrypTech? Are
you considering re-use of CrypTech deliverables in a commercial product?
That would be a good opportunity for both projects.


Joachim Strömbergson wrote:
> The technology described in the WP could be integrated with
> Cryptech as an additional source of entropy for the random
> generator in Cryptech.

Elie Benchimol wrote:
> Carlos .. 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?

The Cryptech RNG is implemented in an FPGA, so many digital
interfaces are theoretically possible.

What low level interface(s) does your QRNG use? The whitepaper you
linked only mentions high level interfaces such as PCIe and Ethernet,
which may not be so suitable because of relatively high complexity.


Joachim Strömbergson wrote:
> I didn't however see any information about the bitrate

The whitepaper says "multi gigabit per second bit rate." on page 4
but nothing more specific.


> 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.

Right, it would be good to run those tests for a while, maybe ICFO
have so far focused on the histogram in Figure 2.


//Peter