Replicated Computational Results (RCR) Report for “A New Test for Hamming-Weight Dependencies”

Abstract

In the paper “A New Test for Hamming-Weight Dependencies”, Blackman and Vigna propose a new statistical test for pseudorandom number generators (PRNG) . Compared with the state-of-the-art tests, the proposed test could find statistical bias in the Hamming weights of the output of the generator. The proposed test is evaluated by using generators in TestU01 [ 2 ]. The authors provide the C code used in the tests and the code successfully reproduced the results shown in the article.