Patent ID: 11907683
Assignee: FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for generating a random number, comprising:
selecting a group of at least two servers within a network;
receiving at least two server specific strings from at least two servers of the group;
generating a server specific secret for each of the at least two servers of the group based on the server specific string received from each of the at least two servers of the group such that at least two server specific secrets are generated for the at least two servers of the group;
combining the at least two server specific secrets or the at least two server specific strings to generate a seed value for a random number generator; and
generating a random number using the seed value,
wherein selecting the group of servers comprises choosing the servers such that network routes to the servers within the group do not intersect.