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What would be best way to evaluate randomness quality? This is something I've been thinking a lot. Yes, there are 'ent' and others, but I am more after trend of

by exfil 5y ago

What would be best way to evaluate randomness quality? This is something I've been thinking a lot. Yes, there are 'ent' and others, but I am more after trend of randomness quality over weeks and months.

loeg 5y ago
https://github.com/usnistgov/SP800-90B_EntropyAssessment https://github.com/usnistgov/SP800-90B_EntropyAssessment
Xarodon 5y ago
Compress it. Truly random data is incompressible. Any alogirithm should work.
- jwilk 5y ago
  Random data is incompressible, but not everything incompressible (as far as practical compression algorithms are concerned) is random.
  - Xarodon 4y ago
    Do you have any examples of that?