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Re: testing your RNG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Blossom)
Mon Nov 17 18:22:52 1997
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 13:50:03 -0800
From: Eric Blossom <eb@comsec.com>
To: zooko@xs4all.nl
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <199711171646.RAA27841@xs1.xs4all.nl> (message from Zooko Journeyman on Mon, 17 Nov 1997 17:46:10 +0100 (MET))
> Any suggestions on statistical methods for testing (P)RNG's?
FIPS 140-1 has a detailed statistical go / no-go test for testing RNGs.
It runs a set of tests on 20,000 bits, and includes acceptability
criterion for each.
Eric
