bogus random entropy sources

Posted Oct 6, 2010 8:40 UTC (Wed) by pcampe (guest, #28223)
In reply to: bogus random entropy sources by jzbiciak
Parent article: Solid-state storage devices and the block layer

I don't understand why they didn't follow the guidelines in NIST Standard 800-22 (rev 1a), "A Statistical Test Suite for Random and Pseudorandom Number Generators for Cryptographic Applications".

bogus random entropy sources

Posted Oct 6, 2010 13:56 UTC (Wed) by jzbiciak (guest, #5246) [Link]

Probably because they didn't have a time machine. ;-) The document you reference was written this year. The white paper I reference was written in 2003. And if you meant Rev 1, that didn't come out until 2008.

Maybe you meant the original 800-22? That one came out in 2001.

(Dates came from here.)