From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 31 18:16:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3F7D37BCB7; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:16:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA19011; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:16:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:16:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to make *real* random bits. In-Reply-To: <5924.965073661@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > [3] Feel free to analyze: Could you post a larger sample (say, 10MB) somewhere for statistical analysis? The 1939 bytes here look pretty good at first glance: 1939 samples, total weight 7729, average weight per sample 3.986075 Bit 0 average weight 0.502837 Bit 1 average weight 0.482723 Bit 2 average weight 0.490975 Bit 3 average weight 0.521919 Bit 4 average weight 0.496132 Bit 5 average weight 0.484786 Bit 6 average weight 0.504899 Bit 7 average weight 0.501805 Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message