Randomness testing

[John Villalovos]

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One thing you may look at is at http://www.cryptography.com/.

They have a white paper discussing their evaluation of the Intel
Random Number Generator.  You might get some ideas from that.

Later,
John

John Villalovos
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From: Brian Havard [mailto:brianh at kheldar.apana.org.au]
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 6:37 AM
To: GnuPG Developers
Subject: Randomness testing


Hi all,
  I've just joined this list as I'm interested in building GnuPG for
the OS/2
platform but have one serious problem, a lack of a suitable
randomness
source. So I have a few questions for the experts:

- - If I come up with a source of randomness, how do I test how 'good'
it is
and how good is good enough for a secure GnuPG?
- - How fast does it have to come up with the random data to be
acceptable?
- - Is there already a generic source of good randomness available
anywhere
that I could port?

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