Copyright (C) 2014-2016  Marek Sys, Zdenek Riha

NIST STS-optimised version 5 is optimised NIST STS 2.1.1 (that uses FFTW for the Spectral test).

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NIST-optimised package (version 1) is built on NIST STS 2.1.1. 
More details about package you can find in:
	Marek Sýs, Zdenek Riha. Faster Randomness Testing with the NIST Statistical Test Suite, 
        In "Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering", LNCS, vol 8804, pp. 272-284.

	Marek SÝS, Zdeněk ŘÍHA, Václav MATYÁŠ, Kinga MÁRTON a Alin SUCIU. On the interpretation of 
        results from the NIST statistical test suite. Romanian Journal of Information Science and 
        Technology, Publishing House of the Romanian Academy, 2015, vol. 18, num. 1, pp 18-32. ISSN 1453-8245.

In the NIST-optimised (version 2) we speed up (2x) Linear complexity test. Also we incorporated FFTW 3.3.4 to speed up Spectral test
for larger factors of the bistream size. 


More details about NIST STS 2.1 you can find in:
	 Rukhin, A., Soto, J., Nechvatal, J., Smid, M., Barker, E., Leigh, S., Levenson, M., Vangel, M., Banks, D., Heckert,
	 A., Dray, J., Vo, S.: A Statistical Test Suite for the Validation of Random Number Generators and Pseudo Random 
	 Number Generators for Cryptographic Applications, Version STS-2.1, NIST Special Publication 800-22rev1a (April 2010).

FFTW was published in the paper:
	 Matteo Frigo and Steven G. Johnson, “The design and implementation of FFTW3,” Proc. IEEE 93 (2), 216–231 (2005).


In case of any questions you can contact us using following emails: syso@mail.muni.cz , zriha@fi.muni.cz.