[Cryptography] True RNG: elementary particle noise sensed with surprisingly simple electronics

[Kevin W. Wall]

On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:55 PM, sebastien riou <matic at nimp.co.uk> wrote:
> "Shrinking entropy sources comes from (a) better circuits and (b) better
> extractor theory"
>
> Could you point to some litterature ?

I doubt this is the literature that this particular discussion is
seeking / referring to, but I recall
reading this in either a recent IEEE or ACM email:

http://www.compoundsemi.com/inp-chip-shows-potential-random-number-generation-encryption/

Well, I think it referred to a different news article, but IIRC, it
was discussing the same
InP chip which apparently acts as "quantum entropy source". The actual
work that the
article cites is:
Carlos Abellan, Waldimar Amaya, David Domenech, Pascual Muñoz, Jose
Capmany, Stefano Longhi, Morgan W. Mitchell, and Valerio Pruneri,
“Quantum entropy source on an InP photonic integrated circuit for
random number generation,” Optica 3, 989-994 (2016)

-kevin
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