18 Dec
2003
18 Dec
'03
8:17 a.m.
Clifford Heath wrote:
We have been asked by a customer if we have any tests that demonstrate the randomness of the SSLeay random number generator (augmented by some sound-card random number seeding that we wrote).
I'd like to find some standard implementation for testing randomness, but Schneier offers no help (other than a reference to Knuth Vol 2), and I don't know where else to turn.
I suggest that you do at least Maurer's test which is described in A. J. Menezes et al. Handbook of Applied Cryptography. The test is not difficult to code. You could also look at my code in http://www.stud.uni-muenchen.de/~mok-kong.shen/#paper1 in Fortran. M. K. Shen