18 Dec
2003
18 Dec
'03
8:17 a.m.
At 11:30 AM 10/21/98 +0100, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
Not answerable. (Reason: substitute car, HIFI, medical doctor, etc. for 'software PRNG').
Nice metaphors.
2. Are there any software implementations to test the randomness of a PRNG ? I've looked at Diehard - is there anything else?
There are tests that one can implement with reasonable effort. A test relevant in cryptology is Maurer's test.
Recall that Ueli's Universal Statistical Test is valid only for real sources of entropy. PRNGs have zero entropy asymptotically ;-)