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[slowflake]

Hi all,
I am doing an MSc project in cryptography and trying to develop a good pseudorandom number generator for a stream cipher.

Today probably the best package of tests for pseudorandom numbers is created by NIST.
The latest revisions were done on an Apple MacBook Pro with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor using the gcc compiler.

It said in the documentation (section 5.3) that one of the properties is the "Platform Independence: The source code was written in ANSI C. However, some modification may have to be made, depending on the target platform and the compiler."

and

"Portability:With minor modifications, source code may be ported to different platforms. The
NIST source code was ported to a Windows XP system running Visual Studio 2005 compiler and
a Ubuntu Linux system running gcc."

However, I am using windows seven and I have visual studio 2010 on my computer. A have no idea how to compile the source code.

Could you please give me the instructions how I can do it? Or it would be great if you could compile the code for windows and upload it somewhere!

I will appreciate any help! Thank you very much

Edited by slowflake, 09 September 2010 - 06:08 AM.

[dargueta]

If you have the source directory, just create a new project, add the files to the project (preferably the whole folder at once), and compile it.

[dbug]

You can create a new "Win32 Console Application" checking the option "Empty project" in the wizard. It compiles with some warnings that can be removed changing some options but are not critical. Additionally I would change the encoding to multibyte instead of unicode, and use C compiler instead of C++, but it's possible this is not necessary.

The problematic part are the functions erf and erfc that don't exist in the Microsoft's math library. One solution is to integrate its implementation into the code (here is a fragment of code implementing those functions) or using some other math library that implements them (searching with google you can find some).

I haven't tried it, so I don't know if these changes will be enough to get the final executable working as it's supposed to do...

[samkkk]

slowflake said:

Hi all,
I am doing an MSc project in cryptography and trying to develop a good pseudorandom number generator for a stream cipher.

Today probably the best package of tests for pseudorandom numbers is created by NIST.
The latest revisions were done on an Apple MacBook Pro with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor using the gcc compiler.

It said in the documentation (section 5.3) that one of the properties is the "Platform Independence: The source code was written in ANSI C. However, some modification may have to be made, depending on the target platform and the compiler."

and

"Portability:With minor modifications, source code may be ported to different platforms. The
NIST source code was ported to a Windows XP system running Visual Studio 2005 compiler and
a Ubuntu Linux system running gcc."

However, I am using windows seven and I have visual studio 2010 on my computer. A have no idea how to compile the source code.

Could you please give me the instructions how I can do it? Or it would be great if you could compile the code for windows and upload it somewhere!

I will appreciate any help! Thank you very much

I'm new to this program (A Statistical Test Suite for Random and Pseudorandom Number Generators by NIST). So, can someone please help me with how to compile and run this program on Ubuntu 10.04?

[dargueta]

Hey samkkk! Welcome to CodeCall. :)

Just an FYI, please don't revive threads more than a month old. The original people involved have probably moved on to other problems, and it pushes down newer active threads in the list. Next time please start your own thread. Don't worry, everyone makes this mistake when they first join. I did multiple times. :D

As for your question, I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "help."

[Alexander]

dargueta said:

Hey samkkk! Welcome to CodeCall. :)

Just an FYI, please don't revive threads more than a month old. The original people involved have probably moved on to other problems, and it pushes down newer active threads in the list. Next time please start your own thread. Don't worry, everyone makes this mistake when they first join. I did multiple times. :D

As for your question, I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "help."

I've moved his non-moderated post here: http://forum.codecal...ators-nist.html
I suppose he was confused and made another thread. I instructed him to use that one.