Recommendations for Randomness in the Operating System, or How to Keep Evil Children out of Your Pool and Other Random Facts

Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - 9:00am-9:30am
Authors: 

Henry Corrigan-Gibbs and Suman Jana, Stanford University

Abstract: 

Common misconceptions about randomness underlie the design and implementation of randomness sources in popular operating systems. We debunk these fallacies with a survey of the “realities of randomness” and derive a number of new architectural principles for OS randomness subsystems.

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@inproceedings {189930,
author = {Henry Corrigan-Gibbs and Suman Jana},
title = {Recommendations for Randomness in the Operating System, or How to Keep Evil Children out of Your Pool and Other Random Facts},
booktitle = {15th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS {XV})},
year = {2015},
address = {Kartause Ittingen, Switzerland},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotos15/workshop-program/presentation/corrigan-gibbs},
publisher = {{USENIX} Association},
month = may,
}
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