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1998-10-23 - Re: PRNGs and testers.

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From: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de>
To: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1998-10-23 07:38:51 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 15:38:51 +0800

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From: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 15:38:51 +0800
To: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
Subject: Re: PRNGs and testers.
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David Honig wrote:

> Recall that Ueli's Universal Statistical Test
> is valid only for real sources of entropy.
> PRNGs have zero entropy asymptotically ;-)

Sorry that I haven't yet understood. Could you explain a bit more
from the entropy point of view? In my opinion, a statistical
test does not and should not take into account how a sequence
being tested is obtained. Given is simply a sequence and no other
information and the test should give an answer.

M. K. Shen

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