{"id":320,"date":"2016-03-24T15:35:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T15:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffcardillo.com\/blog\/?p=320"},"modified":"2025-04-21T05:11:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:11:01","slug":"presentation-shannons-theorem-for-key-length-of-perfect-ciphers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jeffcardillo.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/24\/presentation-shannons-theorem-for-key-length-of-perfect-ciphers\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentation: Shannon\u2019s Theorem for Key Length of Perfect Ciphers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently taking a Cryptography course at Drexel University as part of my Master of Software Engineering degree. An assignment that\u00a0I just completed was\u00a0to create a general presentation to give to the class; my topic was on Shannon&#8217;s Theorem for encryption key length.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The presentation itself is fairly short &#8211; I was targeting 10 minutes. It starts off with an introduction to what Shannon Security\u00a0and Perfect Secrecy mean, introduces\u00a0Shannon&#8217;s Theorem for key length, discusses why key length is important for encryption, and concludes with what this means in practice.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the link below to download a PDF version of the presentation slides.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0B2ULYtXDs7ahVDFUZTdvWjBuSjg\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0B2ULYtXDs7ahVDFUZTdvWjBuSjg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently taking a Cryptography course at Drexel University as part of my Master of Software Engineering degree. An assignment that\u00a0I just completed was\u00a0to create a general presentation to give to the class; my topic was on Shannon&#8217;s Theorem for encryption key length.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[40,36],"tags":[37,38],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-cryptography","tag-cryptography","tag-shannons-theorem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffcardillo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffcardillo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffcardillo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffcardillo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffcardillo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/jeffcardillo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"http:\/\/jeffcardillo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffcardillo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffcardillo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffcardillo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}