[Cryptech Tech] New testdata
    Russ Housley 
    housley at vigilsec.com
       
    Tue Dec 23 21:42:46 UTC 2014
    
    
  
Joachim:
> Did you see the other posts by me and Fredrik about this?
yes.
> As far as we can judge, the frequency of repeated bytes is exactly what
> one should expected. We see the exact same frequency for the avalanche
> entropy provicer as wel as for 500 MByte from /dev/random in OSX.
I do not accept this explanation.  I would accept this if the repeated bytes were not _always_ proceeded by the same byte value two bytes before the repeat.  There do not seem to be repeats without this pattern.
> Do you have any idea why the STS tool flagged this pattern?
I'm not using the STS tool.
Russ
    
    
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