From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Jul 22 10:27:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (flutter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F290637BC20; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 10:27:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA00895; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 19:27:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "Louis A. Mamakos" Cc: Brian Fundakowski Feldman , Kris Kennaway , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quantifying entropy In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 22 Jul 2000 13:15:59 EDT." <200007221715.NAA66718@whizzo.transsys.com> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 19:27:17 +0200 Message-ID: <893.964286837@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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