Article 3ZYJ0 Boffin: Dump hardware number generators for encryption and instead look within

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

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Story ImageChip 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Hardware-based random number generators (HWRNGs) for encryption could be superseded after a Philippines-based researcher found that side-channel measurement of the timing of CPU operations provide enough entropy to seed crypto systems with the necessary randomness."

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