Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: illuminati.io.com!uunet!panix!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!eff! + usenet.ins.cwru.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news. + dorsai.org!stevalln From: stevalln@dorsai.org (Steve Allen) Subject: re: Maurer's Universal Test Message-ID:Organization: The Dorsai Embassy - New York X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 15:04:02 GMT Lines: 15 How universal is Ueli Maurer's Universal Statistical Test For Random Bit Generators? Is there a complementary test or set of tests that can give analysis that his test can't? A related question: If I run Maurer's Test with wordsize of 16, can I gain any insight from running it with wordsize <16? btw, I have rewritten and extended 75001969@vax1.dcu.ie (Mike Scott)'s implementation: You can specify wordlength on the command line, and threshold points can be chosen at compile time. I'll upload it to some crypto ftp sites when I pretty it up a little (i.e. get rid of stuff specific to my hardware). -Steve