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Search Publications by: Apostol Vassilev (Fed)

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Avoiding Catastrophes in Cyberspace through Smarter Testing: How to prevent Heartbleed-like disasters using readily available testing technologies

October 16, 2014

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Apostol T. Vassilev, Christopher Celi

The recently discovered Heartbleed bug in OpenSSLs implementation of Internet security protocols and the aftermath from dealing with its consequences highlights a critical problem in the software industry. Software is routinely, inadequately tested

The Importance of Entropy to Information Security

February 3, 2014

Author(s)

Apostol T. Vassilev, Timothy Hall

The strength of cryptographic keys is an active challenge in academic research and industrial practice. In this paper we discuss the entropy as fundamentally important concept for generating hard-to-guess, i.e., strong, cryptographic keys and outline the