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Table 1 Comparison of SP800-90B testing for protocols 1 and 2 (no extraction). From protocol 1 we see that the non-IID entropy is underestimated if the IID assumption is true. On the contrary, we can see from protocol 2 that the min-entropy is greatly overestimated in IID testing if the IID claim is false; non-IID testing has to be done to get an accurate min-entropy initial claim before extraction. Protocol 1 entropy is estimated from one sample of size \(0.4 \times 10^{6}\) bits, where for protocol 2, 10 samples of \(1.4 \times 10^{6}\) bits were used

From: Mbit/s-range alkali vapour spin noise quantum random number generators

Protocol

IID assumption

IID entropy

Non-IID entropy

1

True

0.984

0.723

2

False

0.9276 ± 0.0008

0.750 ± 0.005