Good quality entropy sources are indispensable in most modern cryptographic protocols. Unfortunately, many currently deployed networked devices do not include them and may be vulnerable to Random Number Generator (RNG) attacks. Since most of these systems allow firmware upgrades and have serial communication facilities, the potential for retrofitting them with secure hardware-based entropy sources exists. To this aim, very low-cost, robust, easy to deploy solutions are required. Here, a retrofittable, sub 10$ entropy source based on chaotic dynamics is illustrated, capable of a 32 kbit/s rate or more and offering multiple serial communication options including USB, I2C, SPI or USART. Operation is based on a loop built around the Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) hosted on a standard microcontroller.

Very low cost entropy source based on chaotic dynamics retrofittable on networked devices to prevent RNG attacks / Fabbri, Mattia; Callegari, Sergio. - STAMPA. - (2014), pp. 7049950.175-7049950.178. (Intervento presentato al convegno 2014 21st IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, ICECS 2014 tenutosi a Marseille, France nel 2014) [10.1109/ICECS.2014.7049950].

Very low cost entropy source based on chaotic dynamics retrofittable on networked devices to prevent RNG attacks

FABBRI, MATTIA;CALLEGARI, SERGIO
2014

Abstract

Good quality entropy sources are indispensable in most modern cryptographic protocols. Unfortunately, many currently deployed networked devices do not include them and may be vulnerable to Random Number Generator (RNG) attacks. Since most of these systems allow firmware upgrades and have serial communication facilities, the potential for retrofitting them with secure hardware-based entropy sources exists. To this aim, very low-cost, robust, easy to deploy solutions are required. Here, a retrofittable, sub 10$ entropy source based on chaotic dynamics is illustrated, capable of a 32 kbit/s rate or more and offering multiple serial communication options including USB, I2C, SPI or USART. Operation is based on a loop built around the Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) hosted on a standard microcontroller.
2014
2014 21st IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, ICECS 2014
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Very low cost entropy source based on chaotic dynamics retrofittable on networked devices to prevent RNG attacks / Fabbri, Mattia; Callegari, Sergio. - STAMPA. - (2014), pp. 7049950.175-7049950.178. (Intervento presentato al convegno 2014 21st IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, ICECS 2014 tenutosi a Marseille, France nel 2014) [10.1109/ICECS.2014.7049950].
Fabbri, Mattia; Callegari, Sergio
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