Publication: Critical Analysis of Hypothesis Tests in Federal Information Processing Standard (140-2)
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2022-04-27
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Almaraz Luengo, Elena
Leiva Cerna, Marcos Brian
Hernández Castro, Julio
Hurley Smith, Darren
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Abstract
This work presents an analysis of the existing dependencies between the tests of the FIPS 140-2 battery. Two main analytical approaches are utilized, the first being a study of correlations through the Pearson’s correlation coefficient that detects linear dependencies, and the second one being a novel application of the mutual information measure that allows detecting possible non-linear relationships. In order to carry out this study, the FIPS 140-2 battery is reimplemented to allow the user to obtain p-values and statistics that are essential for more rigorous end-user analysis of random number generators (RNG).