New identities for the Shannon function and applications

02/25/2021

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by   Aiden A Bruen, et al.

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We show how the Shannon entropy function H(p,q)is expressible as a linear combination of other Shannon entropy functions involving quotients of polynomials in p,q of degree n for any given positive integer n. An application to cryptographic keys is presented.