Re: Questions on FIPS140-2 and RNG tests

From: Anton Stiglic (stiglic_at_cs.mcgill.ca)
Date: 03/24/04

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    >
    > So, to restate the question again: Given a true-RNG (i.e. mathematically
    > "undisturbed", physical source of unbiased, uncorrelated, uniformly
    > distributed randomness), are there some favorite tests for these
    generators?
    > I'm especially interested in continuous tests.

    The tech report by Cryptography Research discusses the tests and tools they
    used
    for evaluating the "true-RNG", before it is processed cryptographically.
    Look at section 4.4 of
    http://www.cryptography.com/resources/whitepapers/IntelRNG.pdf

    --Anton

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