Table 16 NIST statistical test results for the encrypted Baboon grayscale image. All tests have p-values above the typical significance threshold of 0.01, indicating strong randomness in the encrypted image.

From: Cellular automata based key distribution for lightweight hybrid image encryption with elliptic curve cryptography

Test

P-value

Result

Frequency

0.54791

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Block Frequency

0.64582

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Rank

0.29763

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Runs

0.60618

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Long Runs of Ones

0.71684

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Overlapping Templates

0.85972

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Non-overlapping Templates

0.99653

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Spectral DFT

0.19428

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Approximate Entropy

0.82376

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Universal

0.99154

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Serial P-values 1

0.73491

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Serial P-values 2

0.93628

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Cumulative Sums Forward

0.22451

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Cumulative Sums Reverse

0.85694

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Random Excursions

X = -4

0.46892

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X = -3

0.004381

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X = -2

0.023641

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X = -1

0.079216

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X = 1

0.89765

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X = 2

0.46738

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X = 3

0.078912

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X = 4

0.085342

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Random Excursions Variants

X = -5

0.16628

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X = -4

0.29842

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X = -3

0.47263

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X = -2

0.63589

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X = -1

0.83214

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X = 1

0.40291

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X = 2

0.33348

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X = 3

0.51936

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X = 4

0.58641

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X = 5

0.40973

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