Randomness Testing of the Advanced Encryption Standard Finalist Candidates

Abstract

Mars, RC6, Rijndael, Serpent and Twofish were selected as finalists for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). To evaluate the finalists' suitability as random number generators, empirical statistical testing is commonly employed. Although it is widely believed that these five algorithms are indeed random, randomness testing was conducted to show that there is empirical evidence supporting this belief. In this paper, NIST reports on the studies that were conducted on the finalists for the 192-bit key size and 256-bit key size. The results to date suggest that all five of the finalists appear to be random.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 28, 2000
Accession Number
ADA393385

Entities

People

  • Juan Soto
  • Lawrence Bassham

Organizations

  • Booz Allen Hamilton

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Algorithms
  • Classification
  • Commercial Equipment
  • Cryptography
  • Data Sets
  • Generators
  • High Density
  • Low Density
  • Probability
  • Random Number Generators
  • Random Walk
  • Rejection
  • Sequences
  • Standards
  • Statistical Tests
  • Statistics

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  • Computer Programming and Software Development.
  • Software Engineering.
  • Statistical inference.