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1998-07-30 - Re: encrypted FM radio hiss

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From: David Honig <honig@m7.sprynet.com>
To: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de>
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UTC Datetime: 1998-07-30 18:23:46 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 11:23:46 -0700 (PDT)

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From: David Honig <honig@m7.sprynet.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 11:23:46 -0700 (PDT)
To: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de>
Subject: Re: encrypted FM radio hiss
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At 02:11 PM 7/30/98 +0100, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
>David Honig wrote:
>
>> I don't believe the depth of info you want is in Marsaglia's distribution
>> notes.
>> You want to talk to a real statistician...
>
>It may be of some interest for you to know that the designer of
>Diehard has the rather uncommon habit of never answering mails with 
>questions on his package. A bug report of mine was without answer. 
>Later I learned that others have had the same experience.
>
>M. K. Shen

Hmm.  What packages or tests do any experimentalists out there use 
for entropy measurements?  

I've used Diehard.  Also I look at compressability (gzip).  I've found
spectrogramming utilities.  I think Walker has a utility, not yet looked at.




honig@alum.mit.edu

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