Randomness Requirements for Security

By D. Eastlake, J. Schiller, S. Crocker. Request for Comments, 2005

303 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Hardware and Architecture

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In Artificial Intelligence

1. Alexey Melnikov
2. Eddie Kohler
3. Ian Fette
4. Sally Floyd
5. Mark James Handley
6. Tom Kelly
7. Injong Rhee
8. Lisong Xu

In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

1. Eddie Kohler
2. Sally Floyd
3. Mark James Handley

In Hardware and Architecture

1. Eddie Kohler
2. Sally Floyd
3. Mark James Handley

Citations in the corpus

• A Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID) URN Namespace (2005, background): “Advice on generating cryptographic-quality random numbers can be found in RFC1750 [5].”
• Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) (2006, methodology): “Section 7.5.5 describes sequence number security further .T his security property only holds assuming that DCCP’ sr andom numbers are chosen according to the guidelines in [ RFC4086 ].”
• Fast physical random bit generation with chaotic semiconductor lasers (2008, background): “Also, random numbers are used in transactions on the internet to ensure confidentiality (encryption), authentification (challenge–response protocols) and data integrity (digital signatures”
• Shim6: Level 3 Multihoming Shim Protocol for IPv6 (2009, unknown): “, following the guidelines described in [13]).”
• The WebSocket Protocol (2011, background): “RFC 4086 [RFC4086] discusses what entails a suitable source of entropy for security-sensitive applications.”