Entropy And Randomness

You are gambling in a casino and there seems to be rather too many occurrences of a certain number. So how can you tell if the casino is cheating? Well we would measure the entropy of the system, and determine how random the numbers were.

Encrypted content tends not to have a magic number (apart from detecting it in a disk partition). If we analyse both compressed and encrypted fragments of files we will see high degrees…

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE

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Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. EU Citizen. Auld Reekie native. Old World Breaker. New World Creator.

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