On the relationship between confidentiality measures: Entropy and guesswork

Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Security in Information Systems - WOSIS 2007; In Conjunction with ICEIS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 135-144

  Lundin, Reine ^a   Holleboom, Thijs ^a   Lindskog, Stefan ^a  

^a KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

CROSS ENTROPIES; FORMAL DEFINITIONS; RELATIVE ENTROPIES;

ENTROPY;

EID: 45949109691     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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