(Fwd) RE: Noise Sphere in Java

Andrew Loewenstern andrew_loewenstern at il.us.swissbank.com
Thu Apr 18 21:48:19 PDT 1996


Deranged Mutant writes:
>  Noise spheres will show certain correlations in the data.  It
>  doesn't mean that the RNG is crypto-usable if it looks good.
>  But if it looks bad then you know to be suspicious....

"Statistical tests cannot find good (P)RNG's, only bad ones."  This has been  
said before in various ways on the list, but it is worth repeating...


andrew






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