title: Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications
author:  Niels Ferguson 
description: <b>Learn to build cryptographic protocols that work in the realworld</b>
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  Article
  Cryptographically Secure Pseudo-Random Number
  Generator IP-Core Based on SHA2 Algorithm †
  Luca Baldanzi, Luca Crocetti, Francesco Falaschi *, Matteo Bertolucci, Jacopo Belli, Luca Fanucci
  and Sergio Saponara
  Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Via G. Caruso n. 16, 56122 Pisa, Italy;
  luca.baldanzi@ing.unipi.it (L.B.); luca.crocetti@phd.unipi.it (L.C.); francesco.falaschi@phd.unipi.it (F.F.);
  matteo.bertolucci@phd.unipi.it (M.B.); jacopo.belli23@gmail.com (J.B.); luca.fanucci@unipi.it (L.F.);
  sergio.saponara@unipi.it (S.S.)
  * Correspondence: francesco.falaschi@phd.unipi.it
  † This paper is an extended version of our paper published in Springer LNEE vol. 627, 2020, Luca Baldanzi,
  Luca Crocetti, Francesco Falaschi, Jacopo Belli, Luca Fanucci and Sergio Saponara, Digital Random Number
  Generator Hardware Accelerator IP-Core for Security Applications, in Proceedings of the Applications in
  Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society, Pisa, Ital