The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Power Spectrum as a Random Bit Generator for Symmetric and Asymmetric-Key Cryptography
This addresses the need for secure random number generation in cryptography, though it appears incremental by applying existing concepts to a new cosmic data source.
The paper demonstrates that the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation can serve as a Random Bit Generator, providing an effectively infinite supply of truly random bits for one-time pads and potentially meeting the FIPS 140-2 standard, with applicability to Vernam cipher key matrices.
In this note, the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Radiation is shown to be capable of functioning as a Random Bit Generator, and constitutes an effectively infinite supply of truly random one-time pad values of arbitrary length. It is further argued that the CMB power spectrum potentially conforms to the FIPS 140-2 standard. Additionally, its applicability to the generation of a (n x n) random key matrix for a Vernam cipher is established.