Boffin: Dump hardware number generators for encryption and instead look within

2018-10-01 22:47

Chip timing could be as effective and harder to hack Hardware-based random number generators (HWRNGs) for encryption could be superseded after a Philippines-based researcher found that side-channel measurements of the timing of CPU operations provides enough entropy to seed crypto systems with the necessary randomness.…

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