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User’s&Guide&to&Running&the&Draft&NIST&
SP#800-90B $Entropy$Estimation$Suite"
12 May 2016
K. McKay
This is a brief introduction on how to run the Python command-line programs (hosted on GitHub at
https://github.com/usnistgov/SP800-90B_EntropyAssessment) that implement the statistical entropy
estimation methods found in Section 6 of the Second Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-90B
(January 2016). It is not a description or explanation of the methods themselves. Please refer to the draft
SP for definitions and descriptions of the methods and their rationales.
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