Entropy as a Service: Unlocking Cryptography's Full Potential

Published

September 7, 2016

Author(s)

Apostol T. Vassilev, Robert L. Staples

Abstract

Securing the Internet of Things (IoT) requires strong cryptography, which depends on the availability of good entropy for generating unpredictable keys and accurate clocks. Attacks abusing weak keys or old inputs portend challenges for IoT. EaaS is a novel architecture providing entropy and timestamps from a decentralized root of trust, scaling gracefully across diverse geopolitical locales and remaining trustworthy unless much of the collective is compromised.

Citation

Computer (IEEE Computer)

Volume

49

Issue

9

Pub Type

Journals

Download Paper

https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2016.275

Keywords

Entropy, cryptography, random number generation

Citation

Vassilev, A. and Staples, R. (2016), Entropy as a Service: Unlocking Cryptography's Full Potential, Computer (IEEE Computer), [online], https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2016.275 (Accessed April 1, 2023)