I have been doing a lot of randomized testing and fuzzing lately, and I want to document some lessons learned. This isn’t going to be a grand unified theory of fuzzing, but rather a collection of observations useful for people … Read more
There is a variable $RANDOM than you can read in bash or zsh to get a random number beteen 0 and 32767. Here in zsh on my (old) mac: % echo $RANDOM 13757 % echo $RANDOM 16896 Logically you could … Read more
Contributed by rueda on 2023-01-19 from the sshd-mk-thngs-hrdr dept. As with library order randomisation (libc.so/libcrypto/ld.so) at boot and kernel relinking at boot, boot time relinking of sshd(8) is now implemented in -current. Theo de Raadt committed the changes: CVSROOT: /cvs … Read more
Mar 07, 2019 tags: | js | visualisation | How random can you be? Let’s play a game. You press ← and → as randomly as you can, and I will try to guess your next input. Use your keyboard or … Read more
Random Distribution of Wealth (2) Simulation: Run Stop What happens, if 100 persons in a room are given $100 each and give away a Dollar to one randomly chosen person in this room each tick of the clock? How is … Read more
I just stumbled across this old story I told somewhere, and thought I’d share more widely. In Ultima Online, the player was a container — one you couldn’t open, but which held your equipped items, your backpack which was the … Read more
by Jason A. Donenfeld (zx2c4), 2022-03-18 The random number generator has undergone a few important changes for Linux 5.17 and 5.18, in an attempt to modernize both the code and the cryptography used. The smaller part of these will be … Read more
[GIT PULL] random number generator updates for 5.17 – Jason A. Donenfeld From: “Jason A. Donenfeld” To: Linus Torvalds Cc: [email protected], “Jason A. Donenfeld” Subject: [GIT PULL] random number generator updates for 5.17 Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2022 00:59:20 +0100 … Read more
Citation: Biondo AE, Pluchino A, Rapisarda A, Helbing D (2013) Are Random Trading Strategies More Successful than Technical Ones? PLoS ONE 8(7): e68344. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068344 Editor: Alejandro Raul Hernandez Montoya, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico Received: April 4, 2013; Accepted: May 27, 2013; … Read more
A Random Walk Through Git A Random Walk Through Git Website – on GitHub Preface 1# echo “Hi.” Hi. In fact, you are looking at an HTML file generated from the output of that tutorial. (that’s why there is that … Read more