Comparison of hardware random number generators

In computing, a hardware random number generator is an apparatus that generates random numbers from a physical process. Such devices are often based on microscopic phenomena that generate a low-level, statistically random "noise" signal, such as thermal noise or the photoelectric effect or other quantum phenomena.

Manufacturer Model Intro Date Interface OS Price Throughput
Simtec Electronics Entropy Key 2009 USB Windows[1]/Linux/BSD US$60 (£36) 32 kbit/s[2]
ID Quantique SA Quantis-USB 2006 USB Windows/Linux US$1310 (€990) 4 Mbit/s[3]
ID Quantique SA Quantis-PCI-4 2006 PCI Windows/Linux US$2952 (€2230) 16 Mbit/s[3]
Protego SG100 1997 SERIAL Windows/Linux/Solaris US$325 (€243) 128 Kbit/s[4]
Protego SG100-EVO 2009 USB Windows/Linux/Solaris US$373 (€279) 128 Kbit/s[5]
Comscire R2000KU 2006 USB Windows US$895 2 Mbit/s[6]
LETech GRANG-PCI 2008 PCI Linux/Windows US$5,500 400 Mbit/s[7]
TRNG98 TRNG9803 2009 Serial Linux/Windows US$208 56 kbit/s[8]

References

  1. ^ "The Windows Entropy Key DLL is experimental". http://www.entropykey.co.uk/download/. 
  2. ^ "Tollef". http://err.no/personal/blog/tech/2009-11-02-21-23_distributing_entropy.html. 
  3. ^ a b "Product overview". http://www.idquantique.com/true-random-number-generator/products-overview.html. 
  4. ^ "Product overview". http://protego.se/sg100_en.htm. 
  5. ^ "Product overview". http://protego.se/index.htm. 
  6. ^ "Details". http://comscire.com/Products/R2000KU/. 
  7. ^ "LETech". http://www.letech.jpn.com/rng/grang_pcic_8ch_e.html. 
  8. ^ "TRNG98". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil.