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entropy
Raw unpredictability — the fresh randomness that cryptography needs to be secure.
In security, entropy means genuine randomness gathered from unpredictable physical sources, used to seed key generation and other operations. Without enough of it, keys become guessable and everything built on them is at risk. microZeus injects entropy through a hook to feed its random number generator.
See also
- Diffie-HellmanA method for two parties to agree on a shared secret over a public channel without ever transmitting it.