Abstract

Randomness is critical when it comes to cryptography. When a cryptographic system has randomness in it, it is impossible to decrypt the codes and break the system. To evaluate a cryptographic function’s randomness, many statistical tests were developed such as: Diehard and ENT, but these tests are not well suited for block ciphers. CryptoStat is the best statistical test suite to test the randomness of the Advanced Encryption Standard or AES, which is a block cipher established by NIST, the National Institute of Standard and Technology. An array based approach is also used to apply the CryptoStat test suite on AES.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Data encryption (Computer science)--Testing; Data encryption (Computer science)--Standards; Computer security

Publication Date

12-2-2016

Document Type

Thesis

Student Type

Graduate

Degree Name

Applied Statistics (MS)

Department, Program, or Center

School of Mathematical Sciences (COS)

Advisor

Peter Bajorski

Advisor/Committee Member

Alan Kaminsky

Advisor/Committee Member

Marcin Łukowiak

Comments

Physical copy available from RIT's Wallace Library at QA76.9.A25 A56 2016

Campus

RIT – Main Campus

Plan Codes

APPSTAT-MS

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