lib/ronin/support/text/entropy.rb
# frozen_string_literal: true
#
# Copyright (c) 2006-2023 Hal Brodigan (postmodern.mod3 at gmail.com)
#
# ronin-support is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# ronin-support is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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#
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# along with ronin-support. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#
module Ronin
module Support
module Text
#
# Implements the [Shanno Entropy] algorithm.
#
# [Shannon Entropy]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)
#
# @since 1.0.0
#
# @api public
#
module Entropy
#
# Calculates the entropy for the given string.
#
# @param [String] string
# The given string to calculate the entropy for.
#
# @param [Integer] base
# The base to calculate the entropy for.
#
# @return [Float]
# The entropy for the string.
#
def self.calculate(string, base: 2)
char_counts = Hash.new(0)
string.each_char do |char|
char_counts[char] += 1
end
length = string.length.to_f
entropy = 0.0
char_counts.each_value do |count|
freq = count / length
entropy -= freq * Math.log(freq,base)
end
return entropy
end
end
end
end
end
require 'ronin/support/text/entropy/core_ext'