NAME¶
nettle-lfib-stream - pseudorandom generator
SYNOPSIS¶
nettle-lfib-stream [
seed]
DESCRIPTION¶
This manual page documents briefly the
nettle-lfib-stream command. This
manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the
original program does not have a manual page.
nettle-lfib-stream outputs a sequence of pseudorandom (non-cryptographic)
bytes, using Knuth's lagged fibonacci generator, optionally using the integer
seed as the seed. If no seed is given,
time(2) is used.
Warning: The stream is useful for testing, but should not be used to
generate cryptographic keys or anything else that needs real randomness.
SEE ALSO¶
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagged_Fibonacci_generator
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was written by Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@debian.org>, for
the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 2007 Magnus Holmgren.
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are
permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this
notice are preserved.