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"Poul-Henning Kamp" writes:
> We should actually have a script in src/tools/regression which ran
> some or all of the stuff from http://csrc.nist.gov/rng/ on our
> various random sources...

Yes. It could at least raise alarms if the code suddenly starts to
no longer be statistically random.

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