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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2012
Laszlo Hars, Lafayette, CO (US);
Monty Aaron Forehand, Loveland, CO (US);
Donald Preston Matthews, Longmont, CO (US);
Tong Shirh Stone, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Navneeth Kankani, Fremont, CA (US);
Rodney Virgil Bowman, Bloomington, MN (US);
Laszlo Hars, Lafayette, CO (US);
Monty Aaron Forehand, Loveland, CO (US);
Donald Preston Matthews, Longmont, CO (US);
Tong Shirh Stone, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Navneeth Kankani, Fremont, CA (US);
Rodney Virgil Bowman, Bloomington, MN (US);
Seagate Technology LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosure is related systems and methods for using operation durations of a data storage medium to generate random numbers. In one embodiment, a device may comprise a random number generator circuit configured to store a value representing a duration of an operation on the data storage medium, and generate a random number based on the value. Another embodiment may be a method comprising recording durations of access operations to a data storage medium, and generating a random number based on the durations.