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Re:14 Character Random Number Generator in C by joegosse on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @12:32PM (#13600164)
Is dieharder considered as the industry standard tool for testing randomness? Is it commonly used by experts?

https://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/dieharder.php

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Re:14 Character Random Number Generator in C by eutectic on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @12:37PM (#13600216)
Dieharder works OK, and you can easily install it on Ubuntu as a command-line tool. PractRand and TestU01 are more stringent and give you more knobs to play with.
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