<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:13 PM, John Kelsey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crypto.jmk@gmail.com" target="_blank">crypto.jmk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">

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> On Feb 4, 2014, at 12:23 AM, ianG <<a href="mailto:iang@iang.org" target="_blank">iang@iang.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>> On 4/02/14 00:00 AM, Jerry Leichter wrote:<br>
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<div>>> - but you aren't saying what *kind* of validation is appropriate for that "something else".<br></div></blockquote><div>..... </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">

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> Yes, you can do all that.  Someone simply needs to state what<br>
> substitutions are allowed, and you can rely on it.<br></div></blockquote><div>...... </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">

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</div>The problem is, one part of what the labs do in their validation<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>Validation....</div><div><br><div>
<font color="#888888"><a href="http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cavp/documents/rng/RNGVS.pdf" target="_blank">http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cavp/documents/rng/RNGVS.pdf</a><br>
</font></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/rng/documents/SP800-22b.pdf">http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/rng/documents/SP800-22b.pdf</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsSPs.html">http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsSPs.html</a>   <---- more than one nights reading.<br>
</div><div><a href="http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsSPs.html#800-22">http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsSPs.html#800-22</a>  <br></div><div><font color="#888888"><br></font></div><div><font color="#888888"></font></div>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">  T o m    M i t c h e l l</div>

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