> > > You cannot conclude that - no test can tell you it, but this test > rather obviously does not, since what it tests is the equality of > probability distributions, so what you can now say is that the > distribution is square. A completely predictable sequence, say 0..63, > would satisfy that. > > Yes, I agree. That is way I proposed to Pawel analysis from the area of stochastic processes.
> Empirically, it seems to me that these numbers are actually unlikely > to be correlated with each other, but that has not been tested. > Another yes, you are right. We need much more data to check if we have a stochastic process consisted of independent random variables. > > Also untested is correlation between the numbers from different > devices on the same run - if they were strongly correlated, for > example, that would be bad. > I have proposed that also, but it requires checking different architectures. I even offered my raspberry pi :-), but unfortunately FreeBSD does not want to work on it :-( > > Not that I dislike Pawel's approach, it seems promising, I'm just > pointing out the weakness of the analysis. > Again, thanks for pointing the weakness of the analysis, you are completely right about everything. I have been thinking about all of these issues, but unfortunately forgot to write it down as a constraints of the analysis. Regards, Mariusz _______________________________________________ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
