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Re:Convert standard Geiger counter to RNG by auspiv on Monday November 13, 2023 @03:11PM (#38254752)
The linked previous project does:

https://github.com/gbonacini/nuclear_random_number_generator

"I tested the randomness both testing the bytes and the single bits in the binary file created from the ASCII file from the appliance console ( see Appendix here or test directory for full result text).

Accordingly with ENT man page: "If the percentage is greater than 99% or less than 1%, the sequence is almost certainly not random. If the percentage is between 99% and 95% or between 1% and 5%, the sequence is suspect. Percentages between 90% and 95% and 5% and 10% indicate the sequence is “almost suspect”", so having 85.17 percent in the bytes test and 60.52 percent in the bits test should be fine."

Entropy = 7.998386 bits per byte.

Value Char Occurrences Fraction 0 413451 0.500284 1 412981 0.499716

Total: 826432 1.000000

Entropy = 1.000000 bits per bit.

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