NIST randomness-tests - EXE?

From: Bartosz Zoltak ()_at_vmpcfunction.com)
Date: 09/30/03 

Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:12:19 +0200

I would like to test the VMPC cipher also againt the NIST battery of
statistical tests, but did not manage to compile the C sources downloaded
from http://csrc.nist.gov/rng

Does anybody have executables of those tests for PC? DOS or Windows version
would be very helpful.

And are the tests worth running? Apart from the battery David Sexton
proposed me, I have rund the Diehard tests and now have uploaded the
results - at http://www.vmpcfunction.com/c7.htm I found it unclear how
Diehard should be used - how many and how big files should be tested - I
followed RSA's approach presented in RSA Labs Bulletin (No 8,1998) for BSAFE
3.x generator - and tested ten 11MB files with cipher output generted for
different keys. At c7.htm I published the p-values generated by Diehard with
average, minimal and maximal ones.

The NIST test suite seems not as popular as Diehard if I see right, could
someone tell how valuable the NIST battery is? 

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