Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Assessing cryptographic entropy
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Application No.: US14318005Application Date: 2014-06-27
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Publication No.: US10079673B2Publication Date: 2018-09-18
- Inventor: Daniel Richard L. Brown
- Applicant: Certicom Corp.
- Applicant Address: CA Mississauga, ON
- Assignee: Certicom Corp.
- Current Assignee: Certicom Corp.
- Current Assignee Address: CA Mississauga, ON
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: H04L9/00
- IPC: H04L9/00 ; H04L9/08

Abstract:
Systems, methods, software, and combinations thereof for evaluating entropy in a cryptography system are described. In some aspects, sample values are produced by an entropy source system. A typicality can be determined for each of the sample values. A grading is determined for preselected distributions based on the typicalities of the sample values. A subset of the preselected distributions are selected based on the gradings. An entropy of the entropy source system is calculated based on the subset of the plurality of distributions.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140301547A1 Assessing Cryptographic Entropy Public/Granted day:2014-10-09
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