[5005] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Word needed for Entropy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Mon Jun 28 17:18:12 1999
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 21:04:37 -0700
To: Carl Ellison <cme@acm.org>, cryptography@c2.net
From: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
In-Reply-To: <37750098.65F2A11D@acm.org>
At 09:32 AM 6/26/99 -0700, Carl Ellison wrote:
"Unguessable info?"
>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.
