Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/8302
Title: Quac-Trng: High Throughput True Random Number Generation Using Quadruple Row Activation in Commodity Dram Chips
Authors: Olgun, Ataberk
Patel, Minesh
Yağlıkçı, A. Giray
Luo, Haocong
Ergin, Oğuz
Bostancı, F. Nisa
Vijaykumar, Nandita
Publisher: Ieee Computer Soc
Abstract: True random number generators (TRNG) sample random physical processes to create large amounts of random numbers for various use cases, including security-critical cryptographic primitives, scientific simulations, machine learning applications, and even recreational entertainment. Unfortunately, not every computing system is equipped with dedicated TRNG hardware, limiting the application space and security guarantees for such systems. To open the application space and enable security guarantees for the overwhelming majority of computing systems that do not necessarily have dedicated TRNG hardware (e.g., processing-in-memory systems), we develop QUAC-TRNG, a new high-throughput TRNG that can be fully implemented in commodity DRAM chips, which are key components in most modern systems. QUAC-TRNG exploits the new observation that a carefully-engineered sequence of DRAM commands activates four consecutive DRAM rows in rapid succession. This QUadruple ACtivation (QUAC) causes the bitline sense amplifiers to non-deterministically converge to random values when we activate four rows that store conflicting data because the net deviation in bitline voltage fails to meet reliable sensing margins. We experimentally demonstrate that QUAC reliably generates random values across 136 commodity DDR4 DRAM chips from one major DRAM manufacturer. We describe how to develop an effective TRNG (QUAC-TRNG) based on QUAC. We evaluate the quality of our TRNG using the commonly-used NIST statistical test suite for randomness and find that QUAC-TRNG successfully passes each test. Our experimental evaluations show that QUAC-TRNG reliably generates true random numbers with a throughput of 3.44 Gb/s (per DRAM channel), outperforming the state-of-the-art DRAM-based TRNG by 15.08x and 1.41x for basic and throughput-optimized versions, respectively. We show that QUAC-TRNG utilizes DRAM bandwidth better than the state-of-the-art, achieving up to 2.03x the throughput of a throughput-optimized baseline when scaling bus frequencies to 12 GT/s.
Description: ACM/IEEE 48th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) -- JUN 14-19, 2021 -- ELECTR NETWORK
URI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCA52012.2021.00078
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/8302
ISBN: 978-1-6654-3333-4
ISSN: 1063-6897
Appears in Collections:Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Bölümü / Department of Computer Engineering
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