Pseudorandom Number Generation, Entropy Harvesting, And Provable Security In Linux

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Presented at Blackhat Europe 2004 by

Seth Hardy

Many efficient methods of generating "good'' random numbers exist in the literature of mathematics and theoretical computer science. One particular method of generating good randomness is to use "extractors'': graphs which will transform "bad'' randomness (i.e. smaller ratio of entropy/data, or randomness distributed poorly) to "good'' randomness (of a provable level of security) by an additional input of only a small number of truly random bits.