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US08918443B2 Reducing bias in hardware generated random numbers 有权
降低硬件偏差产生随机数

Reducing bias in hardware generated random numbers
Abstract:
A random number generator of a processor comprises a whitener for reducing the bias in random numbers generated by the random number generator. The whitener receives a random number of a first length read by an array of latches with inputs from an array of oscillators. The whitener dynamically creates a mask of the first length based on a parity of at least one previous random number read from the array of latches during at least one cycle prior to reading the random number. The whitener applies a compare operation between the random number and the mask to generate a whitened random number of the first length, with reduced bias, without reducing randomness.
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