ENT - A Pseudorandom Number Sequence Test Program (C# Port)

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Introduction

This is a C# library which is a port of John Walker's ENT- a pseudorandom sequence analyzer. My implementation is not 100% complete, but has all of the main aspects.

To use this ENT class, simply instantiate an EntCalc, and perform an AddSample for each byte, or use the overloads to add an entire byte array. When all samples have been added, call EndCalculation() which will return a struct with all of the results.

I have also included a simple class which you can pass in an IO stream or a filename, and it will run through the stream/file and perform the calculation, returning the struct.

Caveats

Unfortunately, I don't understand all of the math behind these calculations, and the code is more or less a direct copy of his work, just ported from C++ using C# functions.

I emailed a copy to the original author, but received no reply. Since his software is in the public domain, I offer this as well, but take no real credit for it, no more than someone who translated a document from another language.

This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)