Paper 2015/591
How much randomness can be extracted from memoryless Shannon entropy sources?
Maciej Skorski
Abstract
We revisit the classical problem: given a memoryless source having a certain amount of Shannon Entropy, how many random bits can be extracted? This question appears in works studying random number generators built from physical entropy sources.
Some authors use a heuristic estimate obtained from the Asymptotic Equipartition Property, which yields roughly
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Foundations
- Publication info
- Preprint. MINOR revision.
- Contact author(s)
- maciej skorski @ gmail com
- History
- 2015-06-21: received
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2015/591
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2015/591, author = {Maciej Skorski}, title = {How much randomness can be extracted from memoryless Shannon entropy sources?}, howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2015/591}, year = {2015}, url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/591} }