title: Spatio-temporal optical random number generator.
abstract: We present a first random number generator (RNG) which simultaneously uses independent spatial and temporal quantum randomness contained in an optical system. Availability of the two independent sources of entropy makes the RNG resilient to hardware failure and signal injection attacks. We show that the deviation from randomness of the generated numbers can be estimated quickly from simple measurements thus eliminating the need for usual time-consuming statistical testing of the output data. As a confirmation it is demonstrated that generated numbers pass NIST Statistical test suite.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stipčević
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Bowers