Testing hardware random number generators?

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I would like to know how to test hardware random number generators.
What techniques, tools or tricks to solve the problem ?
Any practical difficulties, implementation complexities etc.

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e-sushi

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asked Mar 30 '14 at 22:25

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A related answer. – fgrieu Mar 31 '14 at 06:09
possible duplicate of How random are commercial TRNGS – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Mar 31 '14 at 14:44
Answer related to 1 & 2. – e-sushi Mar 07 '15 at 20:22

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NIST has a lot of information on testing random number generators at http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/rng/index.html that might be of value to you.

answered Mar 31 '14 at 04:03

John Deters

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