[Cryptography] Hard Truths about the Hard Business of finding Hard Random Numbers

Bill Frantz frantz at pwpconsult.com
Thu Jan 30 00:08:35 EST 2014


On 1/29/14 at 4:38 PM, jsd at av8n.com (John Denker) wrote:

>Statistical tests on the output are mostly pointless but harmless.

If they are applied to hardware that is supposed to be providing 
random bits, they can catch a number of common hardware failures 
including all zeros and all ones. (Ironically, noisy hardware 
might be just what the doctor ordered.)

Cheers - Bill

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