True Randomness Can’t be Left to Chance: Why entropy is important for information security

Introduction and Motivation Cryptography is fundamentally important for securing data, whether that data is in transit over the internet or at rest on a storage device. In the past, cryptography relied on algorithms and codes that were kept secret. This, however, proved impractical when parties who did not know each other in advance wanted to…

Why Cryptofinance Needs Natural Randomness

As Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies ramp up towards mass-market deployments, blockchain technology faces an under-appreciated technical challenge. In order to securely hold and transfer blockchain documents, all participants will need to create truly unguessable encryption keys. For this purpose, we’ve all come to rely on the random-number source that’s built into the Linux operating system.…

What’s All The Fuss About Randomness?