MODIFICATIONS OF KNUTH RANDOMNESS TESTS FOR INTEGER AND BINARY SEQUENCES

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Koçak, Onur Ozan
SULAK, FATİH
Doğanaksoy, Ali
Uğuz, Muhiddin

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Generating random numbers and random sequences that are indistinguishable from truly random sequences is an important task for cryptography. To measure the randomness, statistical randomness tests are applied to the generated numbers and sequences. Knuth test suite is the one of the first statistical randomness suites. This suite, however, is mostly for real number sequences and the parameters of the tests are not given explicitly.

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Knuth test suite, Statistical randomness testing

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/44973

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COMMUNICATIONS FACULTY OF SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF ANKARA-SERIES A1 MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS

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https://doi.org/10.1501/commua1_0000000862

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O. O. Koçak, F. SULAK, A. Doğanaksoy, and M. Uğuz, “MODIFICATIONS OF KNUTH RANDOMNESS TESTS FOR INTEGER AND BINARY SEQUENCES,” COMMUNICATIONS FACULTY OF SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF ANKARA-SERIES A1 MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS, pp. 64–81, 2018, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/44973.