On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 02:58:06PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Ah, it seems to be this one, from 2002: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=155175 > > So it's not a bug but a feature. :( > > I'm riddling over the code about the connection to an old graphics > algorithm (Bresenham's Algorithm) and how shred produces a random pattern > at all. This [1] perhaps? It's not a good random generator (and not crypto, by a long stretch) but it's pretty well equidistributed, ain't it? Cheers [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehmer_random_number_generator -- t
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