Kerry McKay

Publications

Recommendation for the Entropy Sources Used for Random Bit Generation

January 10, 2018

Author(s):

Meltem Sonmez Turan, Elaine B. Barker, John M. Kelsey, Kerry A. McKay, Mary L. Baish, Mike Boyle

This Recommendation specifies the design principles and requirements for the entropy sources used by Random Bit Generators, and the tests for the validation of...

Toward Standardizing Lightweight Cryptography

June 21, 2017

Author(s):

Kerry A. McKay, Larry Feldman, Gregory A. Witte

This bulletin summarizes the information in NISTIR 8114: Report on Lightweight Cryptography which provides an overview of the lightweight cryptography project...

Report on Lightweight Cryptography

March 28, 2017

Author(s):

Kerry A. McKay, Lawrence E. Bassham, Meltem Sonmez Turan, Nicky W. Mouha

NIST-approved cryptographic standards were designed to perform well using general-purpose computers. In recent years, there has been increased deployment of...

User's Guide to Running the Draft NIST SP 800-90B Entropy Estimation Suite

May 12, 2016

Author(s):

Kerry A. McKay

This is a brief introduction on how to run the Python command-line programs (hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/usnistgov/SP800-90B_EntropyAssessment) that...

Predictive Models for Min-Entropy Estimation

September 13, 2015

Author(s):

John M. Kelsey, Kerry A. McKay, Meltem Sonmez Turan

Random numbers are essential for cryptography. In most real-world systems, these values come from a cryptographic pseudorandom number generator (PRNG), which...