On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 06:32:35PM -0800, David Honig wrote:
> And don't forget to measure the entropy of your conditioned
> output. You must condition, raw measurement isn't good enough.
> Search Shannon or Maurer or "diehard" for more.
I don't understand the use of diehard for cryptographic purposes..it
is very easy to make a low-entropy source which passes the statistical
tests it performs (e.g. output of a stream cipher with a constant
key). diehard seems only useful for testing random number generators
used for statistical or simulation purposes, not cryptographic ones.
Kris
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