From: Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 08:18:34 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Security Dynamics
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Re: checking distribution in 10^4 samples

>their simulations were based on five to ten runs, with 10^7 updates
>per run.  they aren't precise about the exact number of random
>numbers needed, at least not in this paper, but i assume it's in the
>order of one per update, in which case 10,000 would not be enough.

The method of randomness-checking done here is to run a physical
simulation with the random numbers.  Direct statistical methods are
much more efficient.

Eric