On 8/20/2013 2:33 PM, grarpamp wrote:
The subject thread is covering a lot about OS implementations and RNG various sources. But what are the short list of open source tools we should be using to actually test and evaluate the resulting number streams? _______________________________________________
I like the Markov-Renye test described in the current SP800-90B draft. It handles biased, correlated, non stationary data conservatively and gives you a min-entropy estimate.
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