Root Causes: A PKI and Security Podcast

Root Causes: A PKI and Security Podcast


Root Causes 1-25: Entropy and Random Numbers

July 01, 2019

One cornerstone of successful cryptography is entropy, or the ability to create genuinely unpredictable values. But it turns out that generating truly random numbers is harder than you might think. Join our hosts as they discuss the need for randomness, the lengths companies go to to generate random numbers, and the bad things that can happen when they fail.