[Cryptech Tech] Maurer's Universal Test for Randomness

[Joachim Strömbergson]

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Aloha!

Peter Gutmann wrote:
> =?UTF-8?B?Sm9hY2hpbSBTdHLDtm1iZXJnc29u?= <joachim at secworks.se>
> writes:
> 
>> While reading a protocol spec at work I found a reference to the
>> following paper. The paper describes a universal test for
>> randomness
> 
> That doesn't mean what you think it means.

I didn't imply any meaning at all. I just pointed to a reference of a
mechanism called this. The reason for mentioning it is that we have been
discussing a lot of different mechanisms and standards for assessing
entropy, randomness etc. And this specific paper is used in a new
industrial standard as a requirement for generating random numbers for
cryptographic keys etc. I'm not the one suggesting nor recommending this.

- -- 
Med vänlig hälsning, Yours

Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning.
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 Joachim Strömbergson          Secworks AB          joachim at secworks.se
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