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e3pi
on July 17, 2013
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The Raspberry Pi’s Hardware Random Number Generato...
Do hw rng's get a test suite certificate(NIST's?), like a Swiss watch, or like a optical sextant's `Certificate of Errors'? Tables of mean, standard deviation, etc, for expected physical dependent parameters(what: speed? temp? ...)?
EvanKelly
on July 17, 2013
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Here are the NIST recommendations referenced in the FIPS 140-2 approved RNG appendix:
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-90A/SP800-90A...
e3pi
on July 18, 2013
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Thank you. For the last few days, I've been looking for the The NIST Statistical Test Suite, not in C#, have you a link?
EvanKelly
on July 18, 2013
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Sorry, I just found the above from a quick google search for "FIPS 140-2 rng" which I noticed referenced in the rngtester output in the article.
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