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Computer Security Art and Science, 2nd Edition
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Computer Security Art and Science, 2nd Edition

by Matt Bishop
November 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1440 pages
48h 29m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Appendix C

Entropy and Uncertainty

Entropy is an information-theoretic measure of the amount of uncertainty in a variable. Beginning with Shannon’s seminal works [17251727], cryptographers and information theorists have used entropy to determine how well transformations on messages obscure their meaning. Entropy has applications in a wide variety of disciplines, including cryptography, compression, and coding theory. This chapter reviews the basics of entropy, which has its roots in probability theory.

C.1 Conditional and Joint Probability

Definition C–1. A random variable is a variable that represents the outcome of an event.

EXAMPLE: Let X be a variable representing some random event. X is a random variable. For example, X might be the ...

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ISBN: 9780134097145