From: "Marty Levy" <rwww60@email.sps.mot.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 02:54:43 +0800
To: Clifford Heath <cjh@osa.com.au>
Subject: Re: Randomness testing
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Try Diehard at    http://stat.fsu.edu/~geo/diehard.html

Clifford Heath wrote:

> 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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