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Re: [Cryptography] Hard Truths about the Hard Business of finding
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Thu Jan 30 00:53:41 2014
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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 21:08:35 -0800
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On 1/29/14 at 4:38 PM, jsd@av8n.com (John Denker) wrote:
>Statistical tests on the output are mostly pointless but harmless.
If they are applied to hardware that is supposed to be providing
random bits, they can catch a number of common hardware failures
including all zeros and all ones. (Ironically, noisy hardware
might be just what the doctor ordered.)
Cheers - Bill
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