Carl Ellison wrote:
>
> I've been guilty of sloppy use of English, occasionally, and one such
> sloppiness that I run into occasionally is with the word "entropy"
> for cryptographic purposes.
>
> What we need is a word or very short phrase to capture the full
> phrase:
>
> "the conditional entropy of a measurement given all the information about the
> measurement that an attacker is expected to acquire, under the threat model for
> which the present use is being designed."
>
> In casual language, I might call this "undiscoverability", but it's
> far too large a word.
"effective randomness"?
Cheers,
Ben.
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