Title :
The Importance of Entropy to Information Security
Author :
Vassilev, Andrea ; Hall, Timothy A.
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Stand. & Technol., Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Abstract :
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.
Keywords :
cryptography; entropy; cryptography; deterministic random bit generators; entropy estimation; improved entropy sources; information security; sensitive information protection; Cryptography; Entropy; Generators; NIST; Random processes; cryptography; deterministic random bit generators; entropy; information security; pseudorandom number generators; security;
