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Table 3 Proportion of passes for each individual test in the NIST test suite. The minimum pass rate is 8

From: Creating and detecting specious randomness

 

13 bit

16 bit

17 bit

25 bit

2 × 24 bit

Frequency

10/10

10/10

10/10

9/10

10/10

Block Frequency

9/10

10/10

10/10

10/10

10/10

Cumulative Sums 1

10/10

10/10

10/10

9/10

10/10

Cumulative Sums 2

10/10

10/10

10/10

9/10

10/10

Runs

10/10

10/10

10/10

10/10

10/10

Longest Run

10/10

10/10

10/10

9/10

10/10

Rank

10/10

10/10

10/10

10/10

9/10

FFT

10/10

10/10

10/10

10/10

9/10

Non Overlapping Template

9.82/10

9.80/10

9.79/10

9.89/10

9.88/10

Overlapping Template

10/10

10/10

10/10

8/10

10/10

Universal

0/10

0/10

0/10

10/10

10/10

Approximate Entropy

9/10

8/10

5/10

10/10

10/10

Random Excursions

9/9

9.00/9

Random Excursions Variant

9/9

9.00/9

Serial 1

10/10

10/10

10/10

10/10

10/10

Serial 2

10/10

10/10

10/10

10/10

10/10

Linear Complexity

9/10

10/10

10/10

10/10

10/10

  1. Average of multiple versions of the specific test.
  2. Two 24-bit systems with different seeds were concatenated.