The cosmic microwave background radiation power spectrum as a random bit generator for symmetric- and asymmetric-key cryptography

Jeffrey S Lee; Gerald B Cleaver

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2017.e00422

The cosmic microwave background radiation power spectrum as a random bit generator for symmetric- and asymmetric-key cryptography

Heliyon. 2017 Oct 6;3(10):e00422. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2017.e00422. eCollection 2017 Oct.

Authors

Jeffrey S Lee¹, Gerald B Cleaver^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Early Universe Cosmology and Strings Group, Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics, and Engineering Research, United States.
² Department of Physics, Baylor University, One Bear Place, Waco, TX 76706, United States.

Abstract

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 × n) random key matrix for a Vernam cipher is established.

Keywords: Astrophysics; Computer science; Mathematics; Particle physics.