Random number generator links

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26 November, 2005

This page gives links to internet sites relevant to random number generation. Emphasis is on hardware random number generators but I also include some links about pseudo-random number generators. I am not trying to include everything and I don't necessarily agree with what is on the sites that I do include.

Comments, corrections, additions and subtractions to robert at statsresearch.co.nz

For the rest of my web site go to http://www.robertnz.net

Lists of links

Don't forget the search engines

• http://www.google.com
• http://www.yahoo.com

Random numbers and cryptography links

• http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/rnd/

WWW virtual library

• http://random.mat.sbg.ac.at/links/

Links - both hardware and pseudo random number generators

• http://perso.wanadoo.fr/basuyaux/liens/rng.html

Articles

Evaluations of several RNGS

• http://www.cryptography.com/research/evaluations.html

Numerical analysis FAQ list - see section on random number generators

• http://www.mathcom.com/nafaq/index.html

Randomness and security

• http://info.internet.isi.edu:80/in-notes/rfc/files/rfc1750.txt

Hardware random number generators (and reducing bias)

• http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/beating.html

Pseudo-random number generators (and security)

• http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/playing/index.html

Pseudo-random number (mostly) generation - includes some source code

• http://www.taygeta.com/random.xml

Article on random number generation in cryptography (you have to search through this page for the link to the latest version)

• http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/tutorial/

Terry Ritter's articles on random noise and hardware random number generators (and lots of other things)

• http://www.ciphersbyritter.com

pLab: Theory and Practice of Random Number Generation (includes theory, pseudo-random generators and tests)

• http://random.mat.sbg.ac.at/

Bruce Schneier's homepage - see entry on Yarrow for cryptographic random number generators and article on attacks on pseudo random number generators

• http://www.schneier.com/
• http://www.schneier.com/papers.html

Chapter on pseudo- random number generators in Menzies' Handbook of Applied Cryptography - see chapter 5

• http://cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/

NIST Computer Security Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) publication

• http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/index.html

Diehard tests and cdrom - also includes code for random number generators.

• http://stat.fsu.edu/~geo/diehard.html
• http://stat.fsu.edu/pub/diehard/cdrom/

Entropy - notes and links

• http://math.washington.edu/~hillman/entropy.html

How to influence a random number generator by thinking about it

• http://www.psy.uva.nl/psychonomie/RESEARCH/anomal.html

My (Robert Davies) pages

• http://www.robertnz.net/rng_rep.htm

Testing

FIPS 140 standard

• http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips1401.htm
• http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips1401.pdf
• http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips140-2/fips1402.pdf
• http://csrc.nist.gov/cryptval/

NIST test suite

• http://csrc.nist.gov/rng/

L'Ecuyer's test suite (also a number of pseudo rngs)

• http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~simardr/

Also see Diehard tests

Hardware generator manufacturers

Intel random number generator

General description (click on random number generator entry on left column to explore)

• http://developer.intel.com/design/security/rng/rng.htm
• http://developer.intel.com/design/chipsets/rng/

For technical overview

• http://developer.intel.com/design/chipsets/rng/CRIwp.htm

Driver information for Windows

• http://developer.intel.com/design/software/drivers/platform/security.htm
• http://www.intel.com/design/security/rng/rng-capi.htm
• http://developer.intel.com/design/security/rng/rngres.htm

Reference manual for firmware hub (for accessing generator)

• http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/810/

Driver for Linux (search on Google for more examples)

• http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0001.3/att-0037/01-rng.c

Others

Quantum world/Comscire

• http://www.comscire.com/

Tundra-Newbridge - no longer available

Orion

• http://valley.interact.nl/av/com/orion/home.html

Protego / TRNG98

• http://www.protego.se, http://www.trng98.se

LavaRnd hardware number generator

• http://www.lavarnd.org/index.html
• http://www.lavarnd.org/what/nist-test.html

Havege entropy gathering generator

• http://www.irisa.fr/caps/projects/hipsor/HAVEGE.html

Radioactive generator (don't know if this is available commercially)

• http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/

Quantum random number generator

• http://www.idquantique.com/products/quantis.htm

• http://qrbg.irb.hr/

Rolf Freitag's generator

• http://www.true-random.com/

RNGResearch

• http://RNGResearch.com/

Pseudo-random number generators

Random number generation on super-computers

• http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Apps/CMP/RNG/index_old.html
• http://sprng.cs.fsu.edu/RNG

Also see Diehard tests, and Taygeta page

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