On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:39:35 +0100 RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:51:02 -0700 > "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you really want to roll-your-own and not use these functions > > then you could read blocks from /dev/random and run > > a Chi-square and Monte Carlo test on each > > block and discard the ones that don't pass. > > > > I've done my experimenting with the ENT program: > > > > http://www.fourmilab.ch/random/ > > I'm sceptical about this, if Rijndael in counter-mode produced output > that's distinguishable from random numbers over a few thousand bytes > it would surely never have made it into the AES competition, let > alone win it.
I tried it myself (the windows binary runs under wine), it looks OK to me, they look like normal statistical fluctuations. You need to worry of they are consistently low or high, or if you *never* get extreme values. Discarding the blocks that don't "pass" would produce less random numbers, not better. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
