nettle-lfib-stream - pseudorandom generator
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Copyright © 2007 Magnus Holmgren.
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nettle 1.15 June 2007 NETTLE-LFIB-STREAM(1)
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.
Name
nettle-lfib-stream - pseudorandom generator
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Synopsis
nettle-lfib-stream [seed]
