title: Entropy-as-a-Service: Unlocking the Full Potential of Cryptography.
abstract: Securing the Internet requires strong cryptography, which depends on the availability of good entropy for generating unpredictable keys and accurate clocks. Attacks abusing weak keys or old inputs portend challenges for the Internet. EaaS is a novel architecture providing entropy and timestamps from a decentralized root of trust, scaling gracefully across diverse geopolitical locales and remaining trustworthy unless much of the collective is compromised.
authors.affiliation: NIST.
authors.forename: Apostol
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vassilev
authors.affiliation: NIST.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Staples