RT Journal Article
T1 StringENT test suite: ENT battery revisited for efficient P value computation
A1 Almaraz Luengo, Elena Salome
A1 Alaña Olivares, Bittor
A1 García Villalba, Luis Javier
A1 Hernandez-Castro, Julio
A1 Hurley-Smith, Darren
AB Random numbers play a key role in a wide variety of applications, ranging from mathematical simulation to cryptography. Generating random or pseudo-random numbers is not an easy task, especially when hardware, time and energy constraints are considered. In order to assess whether generators behave in a random fashion, there are several statistical test batteries. ENT is one of the simplest and most popular, at least in part due to its efficacy and speed. Nonetheless, only one of the tests of this suite provides a p value, which is the most useful and standard way to determine whether the randomness hypothesis holds, for a certain significance level. As a consequence of this, rather arbitrary and at times misleading bounds are set in order to decide which intervals are acceptable for its results. This paper introduces an extension of the battery, named StringENT, which, while sticking to the fast speed that makes ENT popular and useful, still succeeds in providing p values with which sound decisions can be made about the randomness of a sequence. It also highlights a flagrant randomness flaw that the classical ENT battery is not capable of detecting but the new StringENT notices, and introduces two additional tests.
SN 2190-8508
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/73239
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/73239
LA eng
NO Almaraz Luengo, E. S., Alaña Olivares, B., García Villalba, L. J. et al. «StringENT Test Suite: ENT Battery Revisited for Efficient P Value Computation». Journal of Cryptographic Engineering, vol. 13, n.o 2, junio de 2023, pp. 235-49. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1007/s13389-023-00313-5.
DS Docta Complutense
RD 8 abr 2025