[Cryptography] Mac OS 10.7.5 Random Numbers

[Tom Mitchell]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:13 PM, John Kelsey <crypto.jmk at gmail.com> wrote
>
>  > On Feb 4, 2014, at 12:23 AM, ianG <iang at iang.org> wrote:
> >> On 4/02/14 00:00 AM, Jerry Leichter wrote:
>
> ...
> >> - but you aren't saying what *kind* of validation is appropriate for
> that "something else".
>
.....

>  > Yes, you can do all that.  Someone simply needs to state what
> > substitutions are allowed, and you can rely on it.
>
......

>
> The problem is, one part of what the labs do in their validation
>

Validation....

http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cavp/documents/rng/RNGVS.pdf

http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/rng/documents/SP800-22b.pdf

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsSPs.html   <---- more than one nights
reading.
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsSPs.html#800-22




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