Some notions of entropy for cryptography

  • Authors:
  • Leonid Reyzin

  • Affiliations:
  • Boston University Computer Science, Boston, MA

  • Venue:
  • ICITS'11 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Information theoretic security
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper presents a brief and (necessarily) incomplete survey of some notions of entropy that have been recently used in the analysis of cryptographic constructions. It focuses on min-entropy and its extensions to the cases when the adversary has correlated information and/or is computationally bounded. It also presents results that can be used to bound such entropy and apply it to the analysis of cryptographic constructions.