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From: "David Honig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> You could also use Shannon's formula directly to compute informational
> quantity. This might work better for short strings.
Can you give me more info on that one?
> More appropriate for testing RNG outputs: Ueli Maurer has a
> compression-like algorithm which is sensitive to the order of symbols, not
> just their frequency, but it needs too much data. The Diehard suite of
> tests requires even more, and is the most thorough.
Yeah, I'm using Diehard to test the output.
Mark
