O'reilly Security Podcast - O'reilly Media Podcast

The O’Reilly Security Podcast: Randomness, our dependence on entropy for security and privacy, and rating entropy sources for more effective encryption.In this episode, I talk with Richard Moulds, vice president of strategy and business development at Whitewood Encryption. We discuss whether random number generation is as random as some might think and the implications that has on securing systems with encryption, how to harness entropy for better randomness, and emerging standards for evaluating and certifying the quality of entropy sources.Here are some highlights: Randomness: The linchpin of encryption When people think about cryptography, which is a broad subject, they tend to think about encryption. They think about the algorithms we use to encrypt our data, the keys we use, and how to keep these keys secret. A key is just a random number. Generally speaking, crypto in encryption applications gets these random numbers from the operating system. There are standard calls that you can make