In-silico generation of random bit streams

Abstract

The main goal of the workshop is to review the main fields in which Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) are being employed, understand the present limitations and define R&D goals for their improvement.

A monolithic SPAD-based random number generator for cryptographic application

“…Note that unlike the ad-hoc non-information theoretically secure and non-compressing post-processing constructions, the linear corrector is a provably sound method to increase the entropy rate of the biased independent bits. We used the generator matrix of a [16,8,5] code for our RNG since it enables a throughput reduction of only 50 %, while the postprocessed bits will have a min-entropy higher than 0.997. This post-processing is very efficiently implemented in silicone due to the cyclic structure of its generator matrix.…”

“…Different works based on monolithic QRNGs have been proposed in the literature [6][7][8][9][10]. Authors in [6] presented first the idea to integrate both source of light and detection in the same silicon substrate.…”

“…Similar approach has been investigated in [7] where a forward-biased emitter junction was used as a source of light in an array architecture. The paper in [8] instead of using of a source of light, it relies on the spontaneous emission of dark events. Nevertheless, no direct control on the event generation is implemented while signal processing is performed by an external FPGA.…”