24 May
2024
24 May
'24
1:17 p.m.
Hi,
Rob wrote:
"Fuzzing" as it is now called (for no reason
I can intuit)
Barton Miller describes coining the term.
‘That night, I was logged on to the Unix system in my office via
a dial-up phone line over a 1200 baud modem. ...
I wanted a name that would evoke the feeling of random, unstructured
data. After trying out several ideas, I settled on the term “fuzz”.’
— https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~bart/fuzz/Foreword1.html
Line noise inspired him, as he describes.
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Cheers, Ralph.