NETTLE-LFIB-STREAM(1)

✨ NETTLE-LFIB-STREAM ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for nettle-lfib-stream, living in section 1 of the Nettle tools 💖 (that's the "user commands" girlies, iykyk)

🌸 NAME 🌸

nettle-lfib-stream — a pseudorandom generator 🎲

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

nettle-lfib-stream [seed]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So this page is here to briefly document the nettle-lfib-stream command, okay? And the reason it even exists is kinda iconic: this manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program straight up does not have a manual page. Not me writing the docs nobody else wrote 💀

What does it actually do though? nettle-lfib-stream outputs a sequence of pseudorandom (non-cryptographic) bytes, using Knuth's lagged fibonacci generator, and optionally it'll use the integer seed as the seed. If you don't give it a seed? No worries, time(2) is used instead 🕐

⚠️ Warning bestie, listen up: the stream is useful for testing, but it should not be used to generate cryptographic keys or anything else that needs real randomness. This is not that kind of party. Do not use it for your secrets, periodt 🙅‍♀️

🦋 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). Slay, generous king 🫶

🌈 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.

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💜 this was nettle 1.15, dated June 2007 — yes she's a vintage icon, an elder, a legend, and she still ate 💅✨🎀