Generating Random Numbers in Hostile Environments

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Authors	KRHOVJÁK Jan STETSKO Andriy MATYÁŠ Václav
Year of publication	2011
Type	Article in Proceedings
Conference	Security Protocols XVI - 16th International Workshop, Revised Selected Papers
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Informatics
Citation
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22137-8_7
Field	Informatics
Keywords	distributed computing; random number generator; security protocol
Description	This paper discusses basic security aspects of distributed random number generation in potentially hostile environments. The goal is to outline and discuss a distributed approach, which comes to question in the case of attacker being able to target one or several mobile devices. We define communication paths and attacker models instead of providing technical details of local generation. This paper also includes a discussion of several issues of such distributed approach.
Related projects:	Cryptographic random and pseudo-random number generators Czech Republic membership in the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics