What is True random number generator (TRNG)?

A circuit generating random numbers from unpredictable physical phenomena such as thermal noise or oscillator jitter, serving as the source for cryptographic keys.

Field: Hardware Security

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  1. Which describes a true random number generator (TRNG) built into a chip?

Related terms

Thermal noise (Johnson noise) Jitter Anti-rollback protection Cold boot attack Constant-time implementation Counterfeit chip eFuse Fault injection attack Hardware Trojan Kernel page-table isolation (KPTI)

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