Am Mittwoch, 10. August 2016, 07:15:49 CEST schrieb Pan, Miaoqing:

Hi Miaoqing,

> Hi Stephan,
> 
> NIST SP 800-22-rev1a and NIST SP 800-90B are used together to evaluate the
> amount of min entropy the source provides, and not to decide if the source
> has passed the tests or failed. See
> 
> https://github.com/usnistgov/SP800-90B_EntropyAssessment
> 
> The goal is often to make sure the input entropy is more than the entropy we
> expect from the output.

You are correct on the SP800-90B tests (hence I did not refer to them for the 
binary decision). Yet, SP800-22 with the associated tool delivers a binary 
decision.

Ciao
Stephan
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