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...a home-brew-ish > Linear Congruential Generator. Use of random_r is problematic on BSDs > because it doesn't exist there. Use of the LCG is simply a bad > choice. > > Replace both uses with a better quality and faster PRNG from David > Blackman and Sebastiano Vigna called ‘xoshiro256** 1.0’ > (http://xoshiro.di.unimi.it/). This is released into the public > domain (where possible) so it compatible with the licensing of nbdkit. > > This also fixes a bug in the random plugin where it could never > generate the byte 255 because I used modulo 255 instead of modu...

v2: - Fix seeding. - Add a test that nbdkit-random-plugin is producing something which looks at least somewhat random. Rich.

...e have used either random_r or a home-brew-ish Linear Congruential Generator. Use of random_r is problematic on BSDs because it doesn't exist there. Use of the LCG is simply a bad choice. Replace both uses with a better quality and faster PRNG from David Blackman and Sebastiano Vigna called ‘xoshiro256** 1.0’ (http://xoshiro.di.unimi.it/). This is licensed under a public-domain license so it compatible with the licensing of nbdkit. This also fixes a bug in the random plugin where it could never generate the byte 255 because I used modulo 255 instead of modulo 256 arithmetic. Ooops. --- plu...

...e have used either random_r or a home-brew-ish Linear Congruential Generator. Use of random_r is problematic on BSDs because it doesn't exist there. Use of the LCG is simply a bad choice. Replace both uses with a better quality and faster PRNG from David Blackman and Sebastiano Vigna called ‘xoshiro256** 1.0’ (http://xoshiro.di.unimi.it/). This is released into the public domain (where possible) so it compatible with the licensing of nbdkit. This also fixes a bug in the random plugin where it could never generate the byte 255 because I used modulo 255 instead of modulo 256 arithmetic. Ooops...