-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2014-0240 2014-01-05 04:56:53 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : dieharder Product : Fedora 20 Version : 3.31.1 Release : 9.fc20 URL : http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/dieharder.php Summary : Random number generator tester and timer Description : dieharder is a fairly involved random number/uniform deviate generator tester. It can either test any of its many pre-built and linked generators (basically all of those in the Gnu Scientific Library plus some others) or a potentially random data-set in a file. With file input, it can manage either a variety of ASCII-formatted input or a raw binary bit string. It is thus suitable for use in testing both software RNG's and hardware RNG's.
dieharder does all of its work with a standalone, extensible library, libdieharder. Therefore its tests can be integrated into other programs.
dieharder encapsulates following random number tests: George Marsaglia's "Diehard" battery of tests, STS (v1.6) from NIST FIPS, Knuth's tests, and more. Check the documentation for complete list of the tests and references where possible. It is intended to be the "Swiss army knife of random number testers", or "the last suite of random number testers you'll ever wear".
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
Fixing issues described in BZs 803292,925254 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Sat Jan 4 2014 Jirka Hladky hladky.jiri@gmail.com - 3.31.1-9 - Fixed issue when testing /dev/random and /dev/urandom 9generators 500 and 501) on 64-bit architecture. Refer to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803292 - Added support for the ARM 64 bit CPU architecture (aarch64) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #803292 - some generators (at least /dev/{u,}random) are broken https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803292 [ 2 ] Bug #925254 - dieharder: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=925254 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update dieharder' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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