#!/usr/bin/perl # # Perform primitive binning into 8-bit bins (take 8 bits of randomness # at a time) and see if the distribution is flat. The output should be # checked by eye - are all the numbers roughly the same? # # Redirect the output from this to a file - and make a cup of coffee while # it runs. This program is a CPU Hog! # # $FreeBSD: src/tools/test/devrandom/stat.8bit,v 1.4 1999/08/28 00:54:24 peter Exp $ # $DragonFly: src/tools/test/devrandom/stat.8bit,v 1.2 2003/06/17 04:29:11 dillon Exp $ # for ($i = 0; $i < (1024*32); $i++) { open(BIN, "/dev/urandom") || die "Cannot open /dev/urandom - $!\n"; $len = sysread(BIN, $a, 256); close(BIN); if ($len > 0) { for ($j = 0; $j < $len; $j++) { $k = unpack("C", substr($a, $j, 1)); $bin[$k]++; } } } for ($i = 0; $i < 256; $i++) { printf("%.2X ", $bin[$i]); } printf "\n";