Paper 2012/487 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2012/487 ↗
Short communication: An interpretation of the Linux entropy estimator
Abstract
The Linux random number generator (LRNG) aims to produce random numbers with all the limitations due to a deterministic machine. Two recent analysis exist for this generator. These analysis provide strong cryptographic details about LRNG. However both fail to give a mathematical explanation of the entropy estimator embedded. In this paper we propose an interpretation using Newton polynomial interpolation.
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- 2012-08-22: last updated
- 2012-08-22: published
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- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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@misc{cryptoeprint:2012/487,
author = {Benjamin Pousse},
title = {Short communication: An interpretation of the Linux entropy estimator},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2012/487},
year = {2012},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/487}
}