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User's Guide to Running the Draft NIST SP 800-90B Section 9 Entropy Estimation Tests

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Timothy Hall, Kerry A. McKay

Abstract

This is a brief introduction on how to run the Python command-line programs (hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/usnistgov/SP800-90B_EntropyAssessment) that implement the statistical entropy estimation tests found in Section 9 of the Draft NIST SP 800-90B (August 2012). It is not a description or explanation of the tests themselves. Please refer to the standard itself for definitions and descriptions of the tests and their rationales.
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Entropy estimation, random number generation, random bit generation
Cybersecurity and privacy, Data and informatics and Statistical analysis

Citation

Hall, T. and McKay, K. (2015), User's Guide to Running the Draft NIST SP 800-90B Section 9 Entropy Estimation Tests, GitHub, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=918228, https://github.com/usnistgov/SP800-90B_EntropyAssessment (Accessed October 20, 2025)

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Created March 10, 2015, Updated February 19, 2017
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