Recommendation for the Entropy Sources Used for Random Bit Generation

Standards, N. I. o., & Technology, S. 8. (2018). Recommendation for the Entropy Sources Used for Random Bit Generation.

Type

Report

Intellectual base

Grey literature

Year

2018

DOI

10.6028/nist.sp.800-90b

DOI registrant

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Link

https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-90B

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Domain-specific

• Random number generation
  • … generator seeds a reviewed deterministic construction from operating-system entropy and expands it into uniform bytes while protecting state compromise boundaries. to A simulation draws uniform pseudorandom variates and applies an inverse-CDF or rejection method to sample a specified nonuniform distribution..

Mechanisms

• Namespace Entropy Review
  • The discipline is to measure the generator's real output, prefer the conservative entropy measure, and state the effective bit count with an uncertainty band the estimators can carry forward.

    This sourceRequires validation data collected directly from the noise source and uses conservative min-entropy assessment, including the minimum across multiple estimates for non-IID data.

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