The Importance of Entropy to Information Security.

True randomness can't be left to chance. Adopting improved entropy sources that feed into good deterministic random bit generators, together with rigorous estimation of available entropy, will help achieve the guarantees promised by cryptography to protect sensitive information.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Publicado en:	Computer (00189162) Vol. 47; no. 2; pp. 78 - 82
Autores principales:	Vassilev, Apostol, Hall, Timothy A.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	IEEE Feb2014
Materias:	Entropy (Information theory) Data security Deterministic algorithms Cryptography Data protection software
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Descripción
Sumario:	True randomness can't be left to chance. Adopting improved entropy sources that feed into good deterministic random bit generators, together with rigorous estimation of available entropy, will help achieve the guarantees promised by cryptography to protect sensitive information.