A study of entropy sources in cloud computers: Random number generation on cloud hosts

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7531 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 286-298

  Kerrigan, Brendan ^a   Chen, Yu ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; ENTROPY; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NUMBER THEORY; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION; SECURITY SYSTEMS; VIRTUALIZATION;

ENTROPY SOURCES; MACHINE CONTROLS; MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; POISONING ATTACKS; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS; RANDOM NUMBERS; SECURITY PRACTICE;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 84881191259     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33704-8_24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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