cosmopolitan/libc/rand/measureentropy.c
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/*-*- mode:c;indent-tabs-mode:nil;c-basic-offset:2;tab-width:8;coding:utf-8 -*-│
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#include "libc/math.h"
#include "libc/rand/rand.h"
#include "libc/str/str.h"
/**
* Returns Shannon entropy of array.
*
* This gives you an idea of the density of information. Cryptographic
* random should be in the ballpark of 7.9 whereas plaintext will be
* more like 4.5.
*
* @param p is treated as binary octets
* @param n should be at least 1000
* @return number between 0 and 8
*/
double MeasureEntropy(const char *p, size_t n) {
size_t i;
double e, x;
long h[256];
e = 0;
if (n) {
bzero(h, sizeof(h));
for (i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
++h[p[i] & 255];
}
for (i = 0; i < 256; i++) {
if (h[i]) {
x = h[i];
x /= n;
e += x * log(x);
}
}
e = -(e / M_LN2);
}
return e;
}