Janne Johansson wrote:

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> What I meant was that one can complain of that the NIST programs (diehard
> and
> dieharder springs to mind) only do certain tests, but that is just because
> noone
> can make a short program that _proves_ a certain stream is random.  The only
> thing available seems to be a series of tests against a defined set of
> properties a
> random stream shouldnt have, but that list isnt conclusive, nor finished.

Check out ent (it's in ports) it does chi-square, entropy, and a few
other tests to grade the data stream. Not perfect, but about the best
you'll do for now.

Brad