entropy

Black Hat·56 min

• Black Hat
• Community
• Date: 2025
• Location: Black Hat

Security researchers examine technical aspects of Understanding And Managing Entropy Usage.

NorthSec·34 min

• NORTHSEC
• Blue Team
• Date: 2025
• Location: Northsec

Engineers explore architecture and security mechanisms for NSEC2023 - Roll for Stealth: Evading AV/EDR Entropy Checks.

Microsoft Israel R&D Center·33 min

• MICROSOFT
• Red Team
• Date: 2024
• Location: Microsoft

Adrian Tiron

Engineers explore architecture and security mechanisms for BlueHat IL 2025 - Adrian Tiron - Vesta Admin Takeover - Exploiting reduced seed entropy in bash....

Main Stage·18 min

• DEF CON
• AppSec
• Date: Aug 2023
• Location: Las Vegas

David McGrew · Brandon Enright · Andrew Chi

Cisco researchers run Batch GCD factorization across 100M+ public X.509 certificates, recovering private RSA keys from low-entropy embedded devices.

RSAC Cybersecurity·52 min

• RSAC
• Community
• Date: 2023
• Location: Rsa

Analysts investigate attack surfaces and defenses concerning Entropy as a Service: A Framework for Delivering High-Quality Entropy.

BSides Portland·20 min

• BSides
• Community
• Date: 2022
• Location: Bsides

Matt Davis

Analysts investigate attack surfaces and defenses concerning Matt Davis - Utilizing High Entropy Stack Canaries for Locating Function Return Addresses.

IoT Village·40 min

• DEF CON
• Hardware
• Date: Aug 2021
• Location: Las Vegas

Dan Petro · Allan Cecil

Dan Petro and Allan Cecil uncover systemic flaws in hardware Random Number Generators across IoT chipsets, leading to static zero-value encryption keys.

Live Presentations·45 min

• DEF CON
• Hardware
• Date: Aug 2021
• Location: Las Vegas

Dan Petro · Allan Cecil

Dan Petro and Allan Cecil present their live research on broken hardware Random Number Generators across IoT chipsets, extracting static zero-keys.

Main Stage·20 min

• DEF CON
• AppSec
• Date: Aug 2021
• Location: Las Vegas

Austin Allshouse

Austin Allshouse explores mathematical factorization attacks against low-entropy and defective RSA keys in embedded firmware and IoT devices.

Main Stage·40 min

• DEF CON
• Hardware
• Date: Aug 2021
• Location: Las Vegas

Dan Petro

Dan Petro evaluates hardware Random Number Generators (RNGs) across popular IoT microcontrollers, exposing broken entropy sources that compromise crypto keys.

Main Stage·21 min

• DEF CON
• Blue Team
• Date: Aug 2015
• Location: Las Vegas

Mahdi Namazifar

Mahdi Namazifar details statistical and linguistic modeling techniques to detect Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA) domain queries in enterprise DNS telemetry.