Quoth Isaac (.ike) Levy <i...@blackskyresearch.net>: > Hi All, > > Does anyone have any good reccomendations for tools or process testing to > find good RNG entropy? Is Diehard still a thing, (Dieharder?) > > Context: > I recall quite some years back, folks here testing some hardware RNG's with > me. > > On a lark, a hardware person I know just whipped up some hardware RNG > prototypes, still playing with them, (usb thingies spewing bits). > > Anyhow, it's been a while, and I'm interested in testing and test > methodology, but can't for the life of me remember how we tested quality of > entropy before. > > Thanks! > > Best, > .ike
Note, while you can prove that a HW RNG isn't totally busted, short fo reverse engnieering it with an electron microscope, you can't prove it's not backdoored. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@lists.nycbug.org https://lists.nycbug.org:8443/mailman/listinfo/talk
