Subject: [Cfrg] fyi: NIST’s New Quantum Method Generates Really Random Numbers (they claim)

From: =JeffH <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 11:40:59 -0700

of possible interest...

From: "National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)"
Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 at 11:04 AM
Subject: NIST’s New Quantum Method Generates Really Random Numbers

Experimental technique may enhance security and trust in cryptographic 
systems...

NIST’s New Quantum Method Generates Really Random Numbers
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2018/04/nists-new-quantum-method-generates-really-random-numbers

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 
have developed a method for generating numbers guaranteed to be random 
by quantum mechanics. Described in the April 12 issue of Nature, the 
experimental technique surpasses all previous methods for ensuring the 
unpredictability of its random numbers and may enhance security and 
trust in cryptographic systems.

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