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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:56
David Honig (honig@sprynet.com)
Thu, 06 Aug 1998 10:31:20 -0700
At 10:31 AM 8/6/98 -0400, mgraffam@mhv.net wrote:
>On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, David Honig wrote:
>
>> I have digitized FM radio hiss using a $10 transistor radio feeding
>> into the LINE in of my soundcard. The spectrum looks poisson
>> with prominant, periodically spaced noise spikes. It does not pass
Diehard.
>
>Yeah, I ran Diehard on it .. and that is why I wanted to find some
>references on removing bias.
>
>> But if you take the PARITY of 8 bits to get one bit, then assemble bytes
>> out of these bits, the results pass Diehard.
>
>This is a neat idea. I smiled when I read this in RFC1750
>
>> 1. There are some nice spectrogramming shareware programs out there.
>
>I haven't been able to find any for UNIX/X .. any recommendations
>for Win31 (I'll try it with Wabi ;) software?
>
You should probably look for native freeware, no?
Otherwise look in various win archives.
I have not yet done systematic experiments looking at, e.g., entropy in
less-than
full-amplitude noise, or intentionally filtering out various pieces
of spectrum. The tables in RFC 1750 show that 8 bits is reasonable.
Interestingly, the parity of a $10 10year old Radio shack monophonic
FM radio, UNSHIELDED, in a digitally-noisy environment, sampled
at 44Khz and 16 bits, passed Diehard.
NB: Consumer computainment devices will include FM/TV receivers very shortly.
Less of a rat's nest in back of the machine.
I always thought listening to static was a suspicious activity.
A CDROM burner is $350. "Entropy. Its not just for ambassadors anymore."
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:56