@inbook{7dbe4d54d32a422cb91753c76279df11,
title = "Improved randomness extraction from two independent sources",
abstract = "Given two independent weak random sources X, Y, with the same length l and min-entropies bx,by whose sum is greater than l + Ω(polylog(l/ε)), we construct a deterministic two-source extractor (aka {"}blender{"}) that extracts max(bx,by) + (bx + by - l - 41og(1/ε)) bits which are ε-close to uniform. In contrast, best previously published construction [4] extracted at most 1/2(bx+by-l-2 log(1/ε)) bits. Our main technical tool is a construction of a strong two-source extractor that extracts (bx+by-l)-2log(1/ε) bits which are ε-close to being uniform and independent of one of the sources (aka {"}strong blender{"}), so that they can later be reused as a seed to a seeded extractor. Our strong two-source extractor construction improves the best previously published construction of such strong blenders [7] by a factor of 2, applies to more sources X and Y, and is considerably simpler than the latter. Our methodology also unifies several of the previous two-source extractor constructions from the literature.",
author = "Yevgeniy Dodis and Ariel Elbaz and Roberto Oliveira and Ran Raz",
year = "2004",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-540-27821-4_30",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "3540228942",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "334--344",
editor = "Klaus Jansen and Sanjeev Khanna and Rolim, {Jose D. P.} and Dana Ron",
booktitle = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
address = "Germany",
}