Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 19:27:17 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quantifying entropy Message-ID: <893.964286837@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 22 Jul 2000 13:15:59 EDT." <200007221715.NAA66718@whizzo.transsys.com>
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In message <200007221715.NAA66718@whizzo.transsys.com>, "Louis A. Mamakos" writ es: > >Tell you what, if anyone has some software which can be used to >evaluate the "randomness" of a bucket of bits, I'll run some experiments. >I'm convinced that even on a static, snow-free picture you will extract >some useful randomness just due to the noise of the tuner and A/D converter >used in the video detection process. Using a completely unoccupied channel >with no signal present will be that much better. http://stat.fsu.edu/~geo/diehard.html -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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