Establishing entropy on a system
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorsAndrew Jeffrey Doane, Todd Lawrence Cignetti
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Abstract
Servers in datacenters, mobile devices and virtualized servers without human interaction may experience difficulties in establishing entropy in a virtualized computing environment. Entropy is an important foundation for cryptography and a lack of entropy has led to weaknesses that can be used to break cryptographic systems in the past.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- generating, using a pseudorandom number generator, a first value;
- and
- generating, using a random number generator and based at least in part on the first value, a second value.
A system, comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- memory to store instructions that, if executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to:
- generate, using a pseudorandom number generator, a first value;
- and
- generate, using the random number generator and based at least in part on the first value, a second value.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon executable instructions that, if executed by one or more processors of a computer system, cause the computer system to at least:
- generate, using a pseudorandom number generator, a first value;
- and
- generate, using a random number generator and based at least in part on the first value, a second value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.