From the time of European invasion what now constitutes United States, settler colonial system has aimed to exterminate Indigenous Peoples and replace them with settlers on land. While colonialism benefits at cost Indigenous, all life Earth suffers from continuation this system. This research examines how white living in Karuk Ancestral Territory, located Humboldt County, California, understand...

We construct an efficient 3-source extractor that requires one of the sources to be significantly shorter than the min-entropy of the other two sources. Our extractors work even when the longer, n-bit sources have min-entropy n and the shorter source has min-entropy log n. Previous constructions for independent sources with min-entropy n required Θ(1/γ) sources [Rao06]. Our construction relies ...

We give an explicit construction of a function that is almost a 2-source extractor for linear entropy, it is a condenser where the output has almost full entropy. Given 2 sources with entropy δn, the output of the condenser is a distribution on m-bit strings that is ǫ-close to having min-entropy m− poly(log(1/ǫ), 1/δ), where here m is linear in n.

We consider the problem of bit extraction from independent sources. We construct an extractor that can extract from a constant number of independent sources of length n, each of which have minentropy n for an arbitrarily small constant γ > 0. Our constructions are different from recent extractor constructions [BIW04, BKS05, Raz05, Bou05] for this problem in the sense that they do not rely on an...

We show that there is a direct relation between the maximum length keys extracted from biometric data and the error rates of the biometric system. This information can be used a-priori to evaluate the potential of the biometric data in the context of a specific cryptographic application. We model the biometric data more naturally as a continuous distribution and we give a new definition for the...

Introduction Maverick is a modern hierarchical netlist extractor, providing extraordinary effi ciency as well as comprehensive features and ease of use. It runs on PC under Microsoft Windows NT providing unique productivity in processing of virtually any size VLSI/ULSI designs. The extractor is fully integrated with state-of-the-art Expert Layout Editor, and represents important part of its ver...