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Noise and chaos contributions in fast random bit sequence generated from broadband optoelectronic entropy sources

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During the last 4 years, chaotic waveforms for random number generation found a deep interest within the community of analogue broadband chaotic optical systems. Earlier investigations on chaos-based RNG were proposed in the 90s and early 2000, however mainly based on piecewise linear (PL) 1D map, with bit rate determined by analog electronic processing capabilities to provide the PL nonlinear function of concern. Optical chaos came with promises for much higher bit rate, and entropy sources based on high complexity (high dimensional) continuous time (differential) dynamics. More specifically in 2009, Reidler et al. published a paper entitled "An optical ultrafast random bit generator", in which they presented a physical system for a random number generator based on a chaotic semiconductor laser. This generator is claimed to reach potentially the extremely high rate of 300 Gb/s. We report on analysis and experiments of their method, which leads to the discussion about the actual origin of the obtained randomness. Through standard signal theory arguments, we show that the actual binary randomness quality obtained from this method, can be interpreted as a complex mixing operated on the initial analogue entropy source. Our analysis suggests an explaination about the already reported issue that this method does not necessarily require any specific deterministic property (i.e. chaos) from the physical signal used as the physical source of entropy. The bit stream randomness quality is found to result from "aliasing" phenomena performed by the post-processing method, both for the sampling and the quantization operations. As an illustration, such random bit sequences extracted from different entropy sources are investigated. Optoelectronic noise is used as a non deterministic entropy source. Electro-optic phase chaotic signal, as well as simulations of its deterministic model, are used as deterministic entropy sources. In all cases, the extracted bit sequence reveals excellent randomness.
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hal-00938365 , version 1 (29-01-2014)

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Xiole Fang, Benjamin Wetzel, Jean-Marc Merolla, John Michael Dudley, Laurent Larger, et al.. Noise and chaos contributions in fast random bit sequence generated from broadband optoelectronic entropy sources. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part 1 Fundamental Theory and Applications, 2013, 99, pp.1 - 14. ⟨10.1109/TCSI.2013.2284001⟩. ⟨hal-00938365⟩
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