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>fairly high percentage of them generated very low quality random numbers

How do you judge the quality of a series of random numbers?



You run a bunch of Diehard tests on them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diehard_tests


The best part of testing random number generators is playing 200,000 games of craps. My boss protested, but I just questioned his commitment to security…


FIPS 140-2 mentions some tests. [1]

[1] http://www.fdk.com/cyber-e/pdf/HM-RAE103.pdf




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