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.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Computer (00189162) Vol. 47; no. 2; pp. 78 - 82
Main Authors:	Vassilev, Apostol, Hall, Timothy A.
Format:	Article
Published:	IEEE Feb2014
Subjects:	Entropy (Information theory) Data security Deterministic algorithms Cryptography Data protection software
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	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.