Kevin Chadwick writes:

> First I'd ask how well can anyone prove that the NIST statistical test
> suite can reliably judge randomness?

It can't; it can only weed out weak generators but could not distinguish
an entropic generator from, say, MD5. See
http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/soft/stompy.tgz for some fun.


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