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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2014
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Theodore Yue Tak Ts'o, Mountain View, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of providing a secure, reliable and verifiable seed generation a random number generator. The method includes determining a first input based upon at least one entropy source related to operation of the processing device. For example, the entropy source can be random information related to the current operation of a computing device. The method further includes accessing a secret input that is unique to the processing device and combining the first input and the secret input via a secure cryptographic combining function, wherein the secret input and the secure cryptographic combining function are stored in a hardware-based storage medium associated with a specific processing device such that they are accessible only by that specific processing device. Based upon the combination, the method includes determining a first output value and outputting the first output value as a random seed for a random number generator.
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