BSD Ports

security/ent 19981020 NetBSD

Entropy calculation and analysis of putative random sequences

System
NetBSD
Repository
pkgsrc
Maintainer
[email protected]
License
public-domain
Categories
security
Package size
8.0 KiB, 18.9 KiB installed

Description

ent is a program which applies various tests to sequences of bytes stored in files and reports the results of those tests. The program is useful for those 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

SystemPortVersion
NetBSDsecurity/ent19981020
FreeBSDmath/ent0.20080128_1
OpenBSDmisc/ent1.0p1
DragonFlymath/ent0.20080128_1

Install

Binary package:

pkgin install ent

From pkgsrc:

cd /usr/pkgsrc/security/ent && make install clean

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.