[103709] in Cypherpunks
Randomness testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Clifford Heath)
Fri Oct 2 01:56:27 1998
To: cypherpunks-unedited@toad.com
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 15:36:47 +1000
From: Clifford Heath <cjh@osa.com.au>
Reply-To: Clifford Heath <cjh@osa.com.au>
We have been asked by a customer if we have any tests that demonstrate
the randomness of the SSLeay random number generator (augmented by some
sound-card random number seeding that we wrote).
I'd like to find some standard implementation for testing randomness, but
Schneier offers no help (other than a reference to Knuth Vol 2), and I
don't know where else to turn.
I realise that cryptographic randomness requires unpredictability, and
this quality depends upon closed-world assumptions about unknown individuals'
predictive powers, but we have to live with that.
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Clifford Heath http://www.osa.com.au/~cjh
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