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4 <META NAME="description" CONTENT="Perfoms FIPS-140 test on the file/device with random bytes">
6 <h1><A NAME="fips140">Testing system random number generator</A></H1>
7 This is small <A HREF="fips140.tcl">Tcl script</A> which tests if
8 given random number sequece (at least 2500 bytes) passes requirements
9 of US Federal Information Protection Standard <A
10 HREF="http://www.cerberussystems.com/INFOSEC/stds/fip140-1.htm#sec4.9"
11 >FIPS 140-1</A>. On Solaris or Linux system you can run
16 On FreeBSD read from <TT>/dev/random</TT> returns even in blocking mode
17 without reading requested amount of bytes. So collect 2500 bytes from
18 <tt>/dev/random</tt> yourself before running program on this file