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Podcast: The Internet of Things’ Entropy Problem and why it matters

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Feed Name: Security Ledger

Date Published: 2017-06-23

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Paul Roberts

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This podcast article explains that cloud and IoT systems often lack sufficient entropy to generate truly random cryptographic keys, which can render otherwise strong encryption effectively weak; it discusses causes, measurement of randomness, security implications, and Whitewood Security's proposed “entropy as a service” (photon-bunching) solution.

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