In papers, we can see people use NIST STS test suite to evaluate RNG.

However, I think that many people just evaluate short sequences, less samples, or only for several times (most are just a single time).

Perhaps, it is because people have tendency to report "SUCCESS", not facts.

Well …

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Two machines of Kuro Sheeva got broken this summer (by power supply unit problem ).

For new machine (which bought in 2010), I installed Debian Wheezy (snapshot).

I use 32GB SD card for secondary storage and use USB memory for installer.

Basically, it went well (except /etc/inittab entry).

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FST-01 has SWD port to write flash ROM of MCU.

There had been no good SWD debugger (hardware and software) in the past. Now, ST-Link/V2 is available, and it is not expensive.

While waiting new OpenOCD release which supports ST-Link/V2, I wrote tool/stlikv2.py to write Gnuk …

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It would be good when Gnuk token supports some sort of "firmware upgrade" feature, which doesn't require any additional hardware such like JTAG/SWD debugger.

Then, users will be able to upgrade the Gnuk firmware.

To support firmware upgrade of Gnuk Token, I am considering adding the feature to Gnuk …

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