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QCA Technology Based 8-Bit TRNG Design for Cryptography Applications

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VLSI Design and Test (VDAT 2022)

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Hardware Security is very important considering the extensive usage of hardware devices and data security. In this paper, the structure of a hardware security primitives namely the True Random Number Generator (TRNG) is proposed using Quantum Cellular Automata (QCA) technology. The AND gate, XOR gate and a gate with irregular behavior are used to generate random output depending upon the metastability of the QCA structure. Furthermore, the structure is cross looped and asymmetrically inverted for extra randomness. The energy calculations of the structure were performed using QCA Designer Pro and the randomness of the output was tested in the NIST Test Suite.

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The authors would like to thank the SERB, Government of India for providing financial support under the Startup Research Grant Scheme with grant no. SRG/2021/001101.

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    Prateek Sinha, Aniket Sharma, Nilay Naharas, Syed Farah Naz & Ambika Prasad Shah

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  3. Department of Electronics Engineering, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology Surat, Surat, India

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Sinha, P., Sharma, A., Naharas, N., Naz, S.F., Shah, A.P. (2022). QCA Technology Based 8-Bit TRNG Design for Cryptography Applications. In: Shah, A.P., Dasgupta, S., Darji, A., Tudu, J. (eds) VLSI Design and Test. VDAT 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1687. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21514-8_29

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