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Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de)
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 18:45:58 +0100
David Honig wrote:
> You've got a random source, say the clicks /sec from a geiger counter.
> You will need to 'distill' this, lets say you use a simple conditioner,
> parity. Now lets say your geiger counter dies. Any randomness test
> will see this failure of your entropy source.
>
> Now suppose you have a good PRNG, which can pass your randomness test
> all by itself, with no input. Then if you mix this with your geiger
> data, and your geiger tube dies, this will NOT show up in your randomness
> test.
That can be true if you are doing that in one pass. Otherwise
you can record the sequence from hardware, pass it through some
test and then mix it with some other sequence (hardware or
software, also tested) and then again test the combination before
deciding to use the end product.
M. K. Shen
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:04