LinuxFest Northwest 2018: Entropy
Channel: linuxfestnorthwest
Date: 2018-04-30

Jeff Costlow

Entropy is a measurement of the amount of randomness in a system. All systems need entropy to run in a securely. We'll do a deep dive into entropy; what entropy is, how it's used, and how it's generated and kept in a pool in the linux kernel. We'll also give some important safety tips.