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Daniel Bakalars Shumow

Stefan Thom

Carl Melvin Ellison

Tolga Acar

Peter L Montgomery

Andrew Stewart Tucker

Cryptographic key management and usage is accomplished by employing a hybrid symmetric/asymmetric security context wherein seed values are associated with randomly generated cryptographic keys. A security context environment is maintained wherein cryptographic keys are reliably reproduced when needed.

Hybrid cryptographic key derivation

A method described herein includes acts of executing a cryptographic function over input data utilizing a processor on a computing device and generating a data packet that indicates how the cryptographic function interacts with hardware of the computing device, wherein the hardware of the computing device comprises the processor. The method also includes acts of analyzing the data packet, and generating an indication of security of the cryptographic function with respect to at least one side channel attack based at least in part upon the analyzing of the data packet.

Side channel attack analysis

A weighted entropy pool service system and methods. Weights are associated with entropy sources and are used to estimate a quantity of entropy contained in data from the entropy sources. An interface is optionally provided to facilitate connecting user entropy sources to the entropy pool service. The quantity of entropy contained in the system is tracked as entropy is distributed to entropy consumers. A persistent entropy pool state file stores entropy across system restarts.

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