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A chapter ``Statistical Testing of Randomness: New and Old Procedures '' Statistical Engineering Division is a contribution to the book "Randomness: Five Questions"

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Author(s)

Andrew L. Rukhin

Abstract

Several procedures designed to test randomness of binary sequences are reviewed. Necessary modifications to the existing document ``A statistical test suite for the validation of cryptographic random number generators'', Special NIST Publication, NIST, Gaithersburg, 2000, are given. A rebuttal of some critisim of this document is also provided.
Citation
Randomness: Five Questions
Publisher Info
Automatic Press/VIP, 2300 Copenhagen S, -1

Keywords

Aperiodic words, Compound Poisson distribution, Compression algorithms, Fundamental matrix, Markov chains, Pattern correlation matrix, P-value.

Citation

Rukhin, A. (2011), A chapter ``Statistical Testing of Randomness: New and Old Procedures '' Statistical Engineering Division is a contribution to the book "Randomness: Five Questions", Randomness: Five Questions, Automatic Press/VIP, 2300 Copenhagen S, -1, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=903151 (Accessed March 29, 2024)
Created January 11, 2011, Updated February 19, 2017