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Re: Randomness testing Was: On the "randomness" of DNS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephan Neuhaus)
Mon Aug 4 17:41:09 2008
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: Stephan Neuhaus <neuhaus@st.cs.uni-sb.de>
To: Alexander Klimov <alserkli@inbox.ru>
In-Reply-To: <TheMailAgent.7edac4d139c7256@18963213edd4286c0c4e>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 14:43:57 +0200
On Aug 3, 2008, at 13:54, Alexander Klimov wrote:
> If your p-value is smaller than the significance level (say, 1%)
> you should repeat the test with different data and see if the
> test persistently fails or it was just a fluke.
Or better still, make many tests and see if your p-values are
uniformly distributed in (0,1). [Hint: decide on a p-value for that
last equidistribution test *before* you compute that p-value.]
Best,
Stephan
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