Final Report
Worked on adding more content to the implementation section, particularly on randomness tests and statistical analysis.To Do : ENT not producing good result with bits. Must work on the code.
Mar14-Mar18
1) ENT, working with bits and the bit option (-b)
Conducted a series of tests to identify how ENT deals with bits. First wrote the data as bits into the file and fed it to the ENT. Then wrote it as bytes and used the -b
option. When the data is written as bits in the file, ENT is unable to differentiate between any of the sample data provided. I think the reason is that for ENT the default
(probably the only) input mode is bytes. So even when the input is in bits, it considers each 0 and 1 as a byte rather than a bit (that's part of a byte). Even when the -b
option is used it takes each 0 and 1 as a byte and converts that into a stream of bits, like converting 0 to a 00000000 and 1 as 00000001.
Detailed report under the ENT section titled 'Dealing with Bits and the bit option'.
2) Before the description of the five final candidates, added a paragraph describing the difference between this description and the one in the appendix which, was a report submitted by NIST on all the 14 candidates after end of round 1.
Mar14-Mar18
1) ENT, working with bits and the bit option (-b)
Conducted a series of tests to identify how ENT deals with bits. First wrote the data as bits into the file and fed it to the ENT. Then wrote it as bytes and used the -b
option. When the data is written as bits in the file, ENT is unable to differentiate between any of the sample data provided. I think the reason is that for ENT the default
(probably the only) input mode is bytes. So even when the input is in bits, it considers each 0 and 1 as a byte rather than a bit (that's part of a byte). Even when the -b
option is used it takes each 0 and 1 as a byte and converts that into a stream of bits, like converting 0 to a 00000000 and 1 as 00000001.
Detailed report under the ENT section titled 'Dealing with Bits and the bit option'.
2) Before the description of the five final candidates, added a paragraph describing the difference between this description and the one in the appendix which, was a report submitted by NIST on all the 14 candidates after end of round 1.
