Re: Analysis of /dev/random

David Honig (honig@sprynet.com)
Thu, 08 Apr 1999 16:47:37 -0700

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At 03:19 PM 4/8/99 -0500, William H. Geiger III wrote:
>
>Is there any analysis of /dev/random used by Linux available?
>
>tks,

I just generated some raw binary files with my BSD 3.0 (Walnut Creek)
/dev/random and then ran Maurer's Universal Statistical Test (blocksize=8
bits)
on the result. MUST measured ~7.19 reliably on several indendent runs. This
is the expected value for a uniformly distributed random sample.

BSD's /dev/random is good.

-David Honig

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