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
Install
Binary package:
pkgin install ent
From pkgsrc:
cd /usr/pkgsrc/security/ent && make install clean
Dependencies
No port depends on this one.