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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak 
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> >Help me here! :-)
> >
> >In your observed sample, what was the white noise amplitude?
> 
> What do you mean by "amplitude" ?  The frequency deviation ?
> The phase error ?

The standard deviation of all the observation "amplitudes", measured
in bits.

M
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