inria-00422143, version 1
Arithmetic operators for on-the-fly evaluation of TRNGs
Renaud Santoro a, 1Arnaud Tisserand
b, 1Olivier Sentieys
c, 1Sébastien Roy d
Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms, Architectures and Implementations XVIII 7444 (2009)
Abstract: Many cryptosystems embed a high-quality true random number generator (TRNG). The randomness quality of a TRNG output stream depends on its implementation and may vary due to various changes in the environment such as power supply, temperature, electromagnetic interferences. Attacking TRNGs may be a good solution to decrease the security of a cryptosystem leading to lower security keys or bad padding values for instance. In order to protect TRNGs, on-the-fly evaluation of their randomness quality must be integrated on the chip. In this paper, we present some preliminary results of the FPGA implementation of functional units dedicated to statistical tests for on-the-fly randomness evaluation. In the entropy test the evaluation of the harmonic series at some ranks is required. Usually its approximation is costly. We propose a multiple interval polynomial approximation. The decomposition of the whole domain into small sub-intervals leads to a good trade-off between the degree of the polynomial (i.e. multipliers cost) and the memory resources required to store the coefficients for all sub-intervals.
- a – Université de Rennes 1
- b – CNRS
- c – Université Rennes I
- d – Université Laval
- 1: CAIRN (INRIA - IRISA)
- INRIA – CNRS : UMR6074 – École normale supérieure de Cachan - ENS Cachan – Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) - Rennes – Université de Rennes 1
- Domain : Computer Science/Computer Arithmetic
Computer Science/Cryptography and Security
Engineering Sciences/Micro and nanotechnologies/Microelectronics - Keywords : true random number generator – randomness evaluation – statistical test – entropy test – harmonic series approximation – computer arithmetic operator – polynomial approximation – FPGA
- inria-00422143, version 1
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- From: Arnaud Tisserand
- Submitted on: Tuesday, 6 October 2009 08:18:11
- Updated on: Thursday, 8 October 2009 10:55:31






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