Re: Data Entropy Tool

["Aaron Turner" <synfinatic () gmail com>]

There are industry standard tests for validating PRNG's which would
give you a scientifically relevant result.  Note that, all of these
tests require quite a bit of data (megabytes or more ideally) to get
meaningful results.

http://stat.fsu.edu/pub/diehard/
http://www.fourmilab.ch/random/

--
Aaron Turner
http://synfin.net/



On 23 Mar 2006 04:20:24 -0000, davidribyrne () yahoo com
<davidribyrne () yahoo com> wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a tool or library for measuring data entropy? Pass it a string, it returns a score.
>
> Thanks,
> David Byrne
> davidribyrne () yahoo com