math/ent 0.20080128_1 DragonFly

Entropy calculation and analysis of putative random sequences

System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
Categories: math
Package size: 22.6 KiB, 40.3 KiB installed

Description

ent applies various tests to sequences of bytes stored in files and reports the results of those tests. The program is useful for evaluating pseudorandom number generators for encryption and statistical sampling applications, compression algorithms, and other applications where the information density of a file is of interest.

In the other systems

System

Port

Version

DragonFly

math/ent

0.20080128_1

FreeBSD

math/ent

0.20080128_1

OpenBSD

misc/ent

1.0p1

NetBSD

security/ent

19981020

Install

Binary package:

pkg install ent

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/math/ent && make install clean

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts: none

Message after installing

===>   NOTICE:

The ent port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is
more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in
the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla

More information about port maintainership is available at:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing