Provision to an application of a random number not generated by an operating system
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsGISELE WEI-TZU TSENG, ROBERT CHUNGWEN MA, TERESA YUN-TING HSU, CHESTER KU CHANG KUO
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Abstract
A data processing system includes data storage that stores an operating system and an application that performs a security operation and a processor communicatively coupled with the data storage and a random number generator separate from the operating system. The processor executes the operating system and the application. The processor receives a random number from the random number generator and provides the received random number to the application for use in the security operation.
Claims15
A data processing system, comprising:
- data storage that stores an operating system and an application that performs a security operation;
- and
- a processor communicatively coupled with the data storage and a random number generator separate from the operating system, wherein the processor executes the operating system and the application, and wherein the processor receives a random number from the random number generator and provides the received random number to the application for use in the security operation.
A method of data processing in a data processing system including a processor, the method comprising:
- the processor executing an operating system and an application that performs a security operation;
- the processor receiving a random number from a random number generator separate from the operating system;
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- the processor providing the received random number to the application for use in a security operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.