Quantum random number generator for secure communications

• Published in: 2016 International Siberian Conference on Control and Communications (SIBCON) pp. 1 - 4
• Main Authors: Epishkina, Anna, Kogos, Konstantin
• Format: Conference Proceeding Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.05.2016
• Subjects: Availability; Computer information security; Conferences; Entropy; Generators; high-rate; Information security; Information technology; non-binary process; photon; Photonics; Photons; Random number generation; Random numbers; Random variables; Tasks
• ISSN: 2380-6516
• DOI: 10.1109/SIBCON.2016.7491712

Nowadays information technologies are widespread and used in every computer-based system, hence information security tasks are quite important and their successful solution is required in business process. Cryptographic means are used in different applications, especially in cases when data confidentiality should be provided; although they can be utilized to maintain data availability and integrity, user's anonymity, author's non-repudiation and so on. Many information security tools use random numbers, but unfortunately, quality of output random numbers and speed of their generation do not satisfy modern requirements. The rate of production-run random number generators is limited by the physical processes used. One of the reasons of low random numbers generating rate is application of binary events. Many generators use analog events, e.g. noise in electronic devices, converted to binary numbers utilizing the threshold value or quantum discrete events, e.g. photon passing through the polarizer. The main idea of this work is that one can increase random number generator's rate using the non-binary sequences, e.g. non-binary quantum processes.