ETSI TR 104 171, Announced 24 September 2026, Sets Entropy Zero Trust and Four Trust Levels for Quantum Random Number Generators: What Its Side-Channel Catalog Means for Military Key Generation

ETSI announced on September 24, 2026 its technical report TR 104 171, published in March 2026, on building a quantum random number generator whose output stays unpredictable once real detectors, power supplies and drivers surround the quantum source. We read its Entropy Zero Trust profile, its four trust levels up to a military and critical-infrastructure grade, and its catalog of blinding, electromagnetic, radiation, power and timing side channels as defense-specific capability: who gains from an attested entropy source beneath a hardware root of trust, what a surveillance-drone one-time pad and a certificate authority ask of the same device, and why an informative report with no test method for its top trust level still leaves a program office to write its own acceptance test.