Bug#568140: RFA: ent -- pseudorandom number sequence test program

2011-09-10 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Timo Lindfors li...@kurp.hut.fi, 2010-03-30, 18:26: Just to check how difficult this would be I hacked together a partial replacement: #!/usr/bin/python import stats, sys, math FWIW, the stats module was removed from Debian a while ago: http://bugs.debian.org/620159 -- Jakub Wilk -- To

Bug#568140: RFA: ent -- pseudorandom number sequence test program

2010-08-11 Thread Milan Kupcevic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I no longer really use this package, but I think it may still be useful. It would probably make more sense for this package to be maintained by someone who is more interested in it. If you'd like to adopt this package, please go ahead. The

Bug#568140: RFA: ent -- pseudorandom number sequence test program

2010-03-30 Thread Timo Lindfors
Hi, I use ent about once a month to get a rough estimate on entropy. This is useful for detecting compressed content and also encryption keys :-) I do not need speed. For me the value of ent package is that I can quickly get a rough entropy estimate without having to write my own program that

Bug#568140: RFA: ent -- pseudorandom number sequence test program

2010-02-02 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I no longer really use this package, but I think it may still be useful. It would probably make more sense for this package to be maintained by someone who is more interested in it. If you'd like to adopt this package, please go ahead. The package is very simple