[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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