On Sat, Apr 07, 2018 at 04:58:06PM +0200, Richard Levitte wrote: > > Can I suggest you try something like > > https://github.com/usnistgov/SP800-90B_EntropyAssessment to at least > > get an idea? You would need to sample 1 variable and feed that into > > it. > > And yeah, sure, especially if all it takes is to produce a stream of > bits from a source and feed that to the assessment program. As long > as I don't have to port a C++11 program to VMS, 'cause unfortunately, > the existing C++ compiler hasn't had a real update for quite a while > :-/ (I'm sure that VSI is quite busy updating all they can, but they > haven't let anything out yet)
You only need to generate the bits on VMS, you can run the tool on some other machine. If you have such a program that collects the bits, I would like to review it. I would also like to test something like that over a range of machines it's expected to run on. I wonder if it's useful to have a thread of VMS that collects such bits all the time, like the kernel is doing. I'm going to guess that the 4 bit you count now is an overestimate. And I would like to be very conservative in estimating something like that, and even divide what the tool returns by 10. Kurt _______________________________________________ openssl-project mailing list openssl-project@openssl.org https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-project
