On Jul 30, 2008, at 1:56 PM, Ben Laurie wrote:
Oh, and I should say that number of ports and standard deviation are not a GREAT way to test for "randomness". For example, the sequence 1000, 2000, ..., 27000 has 27 ports and a standard deviation of over 7500, which looks pretty GREAT to me. But not very "random".
I boggled a bit at the abuse of simple descriptive statistics, too. For those interested in actual statistical tests of randomness, there's a good literature survey at <http://www.ciphersbyritter.com/RES/RANDTEST.HTM >.
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