Poker Test - FIPS 140-1

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Description

Randomness test recommended in the NIST Federal Information Processing Standards 140-1 ( FIPS PUB 140-1 ) publication dated March 1995.

Divide the 20.000 bit stream into 5.000 contiguous 4-bit segments.

Count and store the number of ocurrences of each of the 16 possible 4-bit values. Denote f(i) as the number of each 4-bit value i where 0 <= i <= 15.

Evaluate the following:

The test is passed if 1.03 < X < 57.4.

References

[NIST] National Institute of Standards and Technology.

[NIST RNGT] NIST Random Number Generation and Testing.

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