Establishing entropy on a system
US9749127B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 3, 2014 |
| Grant date | Aug 29, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 3, 2034 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L67/10
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Servers in datacenters, mobile devices and virtualized servers without human interaction may experience difficulties in establishing entropy in a virtualized computing environment. Entropy is an important foundation for cryptography and a lack of entropy has led to weaknesses that can be used to break cryptographic systems in the past.
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