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Statistical testing is used to estimate the likelihood of a hypothesis given a set of data. In cryptanalysis, statistical testing is commonly used to detect non-randomness in the data, e.g. distinguish the output of a PRNG from a truly random bitstream or to find the correctly decrypted message among several incorrect decryption attempts.

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How to compute the dataset size required by dieharder tests?

I am trying to use the dieharder random number test suite. However, this suite requires massive amount of data (this paper claims 228GB for no rewinding for every test) for most of the tests. I'd like …
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