Putting Chaos into Perspective: Evaluation of Statistical Test Suite Implementations on Isolated Sequences of Arbitrary Length

Pol Hölzmer, Manuel Koschuch, Matthias Hudler

2022

Abstract

Randomness is ambiguously defined as the absence of structure, whereby reliable generation and evaluation thereof imposes a complex problem. Efforts have been made to quantify randomness by developing randomness test suites as aggregation of selected statistical methods. This study aims to evaluate caveats developers may encounter employing such methods, and compares the application of randomness test suites for arbitrary data to evaluate features of randomness. Therefore, an initial set of three open-source Python-based implementations of the NIST SP 800-22 test suite have been analyzed and compared. The results indicate no ”one-size-fits-all” approach when assessing randomness; instead, it demonstrates how deviations between specification and implementation can lead to inaccurate results and erroneous conclusions about randomness.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Hölzmer P., Koschuch M. and Hudler M. (2022). Putting Chaos into Perspective: Evaluation of Statistical Test Suite Implementations on Isolated Sequences of Arbitrary Length. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security - Volume 1: IoTBDS, ISBN 978-989-758-564-7, pages 258-266. DOI: 10.5220/0011087400003194

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iotbds22,
author={Pol Hölzmer and Manuel Koschuch and Matthias Hudler},
title={Putting Chaos into Perspective: Evaluation of Statistical Test Suite Implementations on Isolated Sequences of Arbitrary Length},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security - Volume 1: IoTBDS,},
year={2022},
pages={258-266},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011087400003194},
isbn={978-989-758-564-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security - Volume 1: IoTBDS,
TI - Putting Chaos into Perspective: Evaluation of Statistical Test Suite Implementations on Isolated Sequences of Arbitrary Length
SN - 978-989-758-564-7
AU - Hölzmer P.
AU - Koschuch M.
AU - Hudler M.
PY - 2022
SP - 258
EP - 266
DO - 10.5220/0011087400003194