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

Hall, Timothy; McKay, Kerry

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

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Date Published: 3/10/2015

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Timothy Hall, Kerry 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 bit generation; random number generation

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