Re: Data Entropy Tool
"Aaron Turner" <[email protected]>
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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, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Can anyone recommend a tool or library for measuring data entropy? Pass it a string, it returns a score. > > Thanks, > David Byrne > [email protected] > >