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

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Author(s)

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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Keywords

Entropy estimation, random number generation, random bit generation

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 6, 2024)

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Created March 10, 2015, Updated February 19, 2017