[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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