Schnorr's signature scheme provides an elegant method to derive signatures with security
rooted in the hardness of the discrete logarithm problem, which is a well-studied assumption …

Virtualization technologies allow multiple tenants to share physical resources with a degree
of security and isolation that cannot be guaranteed by mere containerization. Further …

We consider performance of Linux Random Number Generator (RNG) in virtualized
environments and ask,(i) if the emulated hardware can provide sufficient entropy sources for …

This thesis analyzes the Linux random number generator behavior in virtualized
environment in two different ways. Firstly, entropy inputs to the generator are examined and …

Random numbers are essential for communications security, as they are widely employed
as secret keys and other critical parameters of cryptographic algorithms. The Linux random …

As a result of this research, we provide important advantages to the efficiency of
environments based on virtualization technologies such as multi-tenant cloud computing …

With the growing influence of virtualization technologies in modern computing environments,
the importance of random number generation in virtualized platforms cannot be ignored …

Recently, cloud computing has become of great interest to many computational fields in the
physical sciences. Cloud computing offers scalable and economical computational …

High quality random numbers are essential for secure servers, alas virtual machines suffer
from low entropy. The generation of hard to predict random numbers is a crucial problem …

Cloud computing is, nowadays, a mainstream technology spiraling across the industry. Its
clear advantages propelled this model to grow at a fast pace, attracting attentions from both …