In message <[email protected]> on Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:26:09 +0200 (CEST), Richard Levitte <[email protected]> said:
levitte> In message <[email protected]> on Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:10:01 +0200, Kurt Roeckx <[email protected]> said: levitte> levitte> kurt> The comment about not hashing it is if you want to use the tool to levitte> kurt> do entropy estimation. Hashing it will not increase the entropy, levitte> kurt> but the estimation will be totally wrong. levitte> kurt> levitte> kurt> Passing the hashed data to the drbg as entropy input is fine if levitte> kurt> you already know how much entropy that it contains. levitte> levitte> Thanks, that's what I suspected. Ok, on to the next step Not done running, but does show some promise... : ; ./a.out ../../../levitte/vms-experiments/entropy-gathering/entropy-stats.bin 8 -v Opening file: ../../../levitte/vms-experiments/entropy-gathering/entropy-stats.bin Running non-IID tests... Entropic statistic estimates: Most Common Value Estimate = 0.975224 Collision Test Estimate = 0.902997 Markov Test Estimate = 0.410808 Compression Test Estimate = 0.811274 I assume that estimate is per "word" (i.e. per 8 bits of data in this case). -- Richard Levitte [email protected] OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org/~levitte/ _______________________________________________ openssl-project mailing list [email protected] https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-project
