From: Clifford Heath <cjh@osa.com.au>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 00:43:50 +0800
To: cypherpunks-unedited@toad.com
Subject: Randomness testing
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We have been asked by a customer if we have any tests that demonstrate 
the randomness of the SSLeay random number generator (augmented by some
sound-card random number seeding that we wrote).

I'd like to find some standard implementation for testing randomness, but 
Schneier offers no help (other than a reference to Knuth Vol 2), and I
don't know where else to turn.

I realise that cryptographic randomness requires unpredictability, and
this quality depends upon closed-world assumptions about unknown individuals'
predictive powers, but we have to live with that.

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Clifford Heath                    http://www.osa.com.au/~cjh
Open Software Associates Limited       mailto:cjh@osa.com.au
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