[Cryptech Tech] Progress on randomness testing, and upcoming TROOPERS conference

[Joachim Strömbergson]

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Aloha!

Thanks for status and info. One idea I've played with is if it would be
possible to use GPUs to accelerate randomness testing. There is a preso
about using GPU to accelerate testing:

http://opengpu.net/EN/attachments/154_HiPEAC2012_OpenGPU_MassiveRand2.pdf

The preso seems to have missed that Dieharder exists, which makes me
cautious. But the results seems applicable and interesting. Running
complete Dieharder takes really long time so acceleration makes sense.
As long as one can implement the tests.


Benedikt Stockebrand wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I didn't get quite as far with the randomness test framework this 
> weekend, but aside from documenting its internal workings I've got 
> something I consider good enough to let others take a look at.  It's 
> about as ugly as C++ can get, but it gives me a reasonably
> convenient interface to binary random data, plus the necessary
> foundation to come up with simple ways to implement the tests I have
> in mind.
> 
> If you want to take a look I suggest you start with 
> html/md_BitSequence_OVERVIEW.html.  (And yes, since I didn't know if
> you are using Doxygen I intentionally put the html directory into
> the tarball.)
> 
> Next step is a way to create parameterized tests that can be run in 
> parallel threads; synchronization shouldn't be an issue, but I'm not 
> even half sure how to keep the working set size manageable just yet.
> 
> And then I'll have to see if I can interface to R for the actual 
> analysis, rather than doing that myself as well.
> 
> 
> Aside from that I'll be presenting at the upcoming TROOPERS
> conference in Heidelberg (https://www.troopers.de/) on March
> 16th--20th on the entire randomness topic.
> 
> 
> Cheers, and have a nice week,
> 
> Benedikt
> 
> 
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