SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS ACROSS MULTIPLE ENTROPY SOURCES

摘要

A group of devices are used to generate random values. A first device provides a request for a partial seed from each second device of a set of second devices. Each partial seed is generated by a respective second device using one or more entropy sources available to the second device. The first device receives the partial seeds from the second set of devices. The first device generates a combined random seed by combining the partial seeds from the set of second devices using a randomly selected first operator function. The first device generates one or more random values using the combined random seed.