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.