An apparatus includes an integrated circuit and a plurality of conducting wires disposed on the integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes: (i) a signal generation circuit, which is configured to generate random signal and selection signal based on random or pseudo-random numbers, (ii) a transmitting circuit configured to select at least one from among the plurality of conducting wires based on the selection signal and to output the random signal through the at least one conducting wire, and (iii) a receiving circuit configured to detect an invasive attack on the integrated circuit based on signal received through the at least one conducting wire.

A system and method for the creation of locality sensitive hash signatures using weighted feature sets is disclosed. The disclosed methodology takes advantage of discretization mechanisms commonly used in computer systems to model the influence of the feature weights on the calculated hash signature. Pseudo random numbers required for the signature calculation are created in ascending order, which enables the signature generation mechanism to identify and avoid the unnecessary creation of pseudo random numbers to improve the performance of the signature calculation process. Further, hierarchic, tree-search like algorithms are used during the processing of signature weights to further decrease the number of required random numbers. The features of the Poisson Process model, like its ability to provide random numbers in ascending order and the split- and mergeability of Poisson Processes are used to further improve the performance of the signature calculation process.

In one aspect, an electronic gaming system is described. The electronic gaming system includes a display device, a random number generator (RNG), a player input interface, and a game controller configured to execute instructions stored in a tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable medium. When executed by the game controller, the instructions cause the game controller to at least determine, during play of a base game, that an enhancement trigger condition is satisfied and convert the symbol displayed on each position having one of the first frame and the second frame displayed thereon into a wild symbol. The instructions further cause the game controller to determine that a bonus game trigger condition is satisfied and convert a plurality of positions on each reel with at least one position having the second frame displayed thereon, into a bonus reel. The instructions also cause the game controller to generate a bonus game outcome.

In one embodiment, an apparatus includes at least one fabric to interface with a plurality of intellectual property (IP) blocks of the apparatus, the at least one fabric including at least one status storage, and a fabric bridge controller coupled to the at least one fabric. The fabric bridge controller may be configured to initiate a functional safety test of the at least one fabric in response to a fabric test signal received during functional operation of the apparatus, receive a result of the functional safety test via the at least one status storage, and send to a destination location a test report based on the result. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

An example operation may include one or more of generating an initial seed and allocating one or more authorized bits of the initial seed to a plurality of blocks in a distributed ledger, storing the initial seed and an identification of which authorized bits of the initial seed are allocated to each block of the distributed ledger, receiving a final seed value that is partially generated by each of a plurality of nodes configured to access the distributed ledger based on authorized bits of respective blocks updated by each respective node, and generating a random sequence value based on the final seed value and storing the random sequence value in a block of the distributed ledger.

A security control method and a computer system are provided. A first domain and a second domain are deployed in the computer system, the second domain is more secure than the first domain, a program is deployed in the first domain, and a control flow management module and an audit module are deployed in the second domain. The second domain is more secure than the first domain. When the program in the first domain is executed, the control flow management module obtains control flow information by using a tracer. The audit module audits the to-be-audited information according to an audit rule, and when the to-be-audited information matches the audit rule, determines that the audit succeeds and then allows the first domain to perform a subsequent operation, for example, to access a secure program in the second domain.

The disclosed distributed task coordination ensures task execution while minimizing both the risk of duplicate execution and resources consumed for coordination. Execution is guaranteed, while only best efforts are used to avoid duplication. Example solutions include requesting, by a node, a first lease from a first set of nodes; based at least on obtaining at least one first lease, requesting, by the node, a second lease from a second set of nodes; based at least on the node obtaining at least one second lease, determining a majority holder of second leases; and based at least on obtaining the majority of second leases, executing, by the node, a task associated with the at least one second lease. In some examples, the nodes comprise online processing units (NPUs). In some examples, if a first node begins executing the task and fails, another node automatically takes over to ensure completion.

A system for simulating a dataset based on sample statistics, and generating pipeline instructions for a database using the simulated dataset, is disclosed. The system may be a cloud-based platform. The system can provide improved performance and security while designing and deploying Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) database pipelines to manage on-premises data. The system receives, from a remote client, sample statistics characterizing a distribution of data corresponding to a column of a database table. The system can generate, based on the received sample statistics, a simulated dataset representing the column of the database table. The simulated dataset may be generated using pseudo-random data values from a distribution with statistics matching the sample statistics. The system can build a simulated database relation based at least in part on the simulated dataset. The system can generate and deploy pipeline instructions using the simulated database relation.

An apparatus has processing circuitry (4); memory access circuitry (15) to perform a guard tag check for a tag checking target address having an associated address tag, the guard tag check comprising comparing the address tag with a guard tag stored in a memory system in association with a block of one or more memory locations comprising an addressed location identified by the target address; and an instruction decoder (6) responsive to a random tag setting instruction specifying a tag setting target address, to control the processing circuitry (4) to set the address tag associated with the tag setting target address to a random tag value randomly selected from a set of candidate tag values.

A method for assigning a random number to a user in a set of users includes computing a random number assignment seed value based on an ASCII-value representation of the user's name, dividing the random number assignment seed value by a quantity of unassigned numbers available to be assigned to the user to produce a modified random number assignment seed value, rounding the modified random number assignment seed value down to an integer, computing a random number offset value by multiplying the quantity of unassigned numbers by the rounded modified random number assignment seed value, subtracting the random number assignment offset value from the random number assignment seed value to determine a random number assignment lookup number, determining the random number to be assigned to the user based on the random number assignment lookup number, and assigning the determined random number to the user.