# Strong seeded randomness extractors with low entropy loss

I would like to implement a strong seeded randomness extractor for flat sources as a part of my project.

Most of the literature on seeded extractors is concentrated on minimizing seed length. However, low entropy loss is crucial for my construction. What are the known extractors with minimal entropy loss? How efficient is the extractor in practice?

Is there a lower bound on the entropy loss for strong seeded extractors?

Are there any implementations of extractors that I can use off the shelf?

• Do you need provable security or practical security? Are you more interested in theory or in building a system that will be secure? Are you willing to accept the random oracle model? (Practitioners typically are for practical systems, but for theory that usually isn't what one is looking for. See, e.g., cstheory.stackexchange.com/q/40581/5038, cstheory.stackexchange.com/q/29117/5038.) – D.W. Jan 4 '19 at 3:17
• @D.W. I am interested in provable security but something efficient to implement. We are using the extractor in our construction of a variant of PRG. So, we do not want to use any random oracle model. We are submitting our construction of PRG to a theory conference. We would just like to mention the parameter sizes and run times in a table. So, we would like to know about the best strong seeded extractors. – satya Jan 4 '19 at 17:01

• Thanks for the answer. The distribution of my input is different. My input $X$ is an $n$-bit string. There is a subset $S \in \{0,1\}^n$ of size $2^k$ such that for every $a \in S$, $Pr[X = a] = 1/2^k$. This is also known as flat source in literature – satya Jan 3 '19 at 23:49