knuth-lfib.c

/* knuth-lfib.c

   The "lagged fibonacci" pseudorandomness generator, described in
   Knuth, TAoCP, 3.6

   Copyright (C) 2002 Niels Möller
 
   This file is part of GNU Nettle.

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   or both in parallel, as here.

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*/

/* This file includes code copied verbatim from Knuth's TAoCP.
   Technically, doing that probably requires asking for the author's
   explicit permission. I'd expect such a request to be granted, but I
   haven't asked, because I don't want to distract him from more
   important and interesting work. */



/* NOTE: This generator is totally inappropriate for cryptographic
 * applications. It is useful for generating deterministic but
 * random-looking test data, and is used by the Nettle testsuite. */

#if HAVE_CONFIG_H
# include "config.h"
#endif

#include <assert.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

#include "knuth-lfib.h"

#include "macros.h"

#define KK _KNUTH_LFIB_KK
#define LL 37
#define MM (1UL << 30)
#define TT 70

void
knuth_lfib_init(struct knuth_lfib_ctx *ctx, uint32_t seed)
{
  uint32_t t,j;
  uint32_t x[2*KK - 1];
  uint32_t ss = (seed + 2) & (MM-2);

  for (j = 0; j<KK; j++)