24 May
2024
24 May
'24
1:41 p.m.
I'm sure that's the etymology but fuzzing isn't exactly random.
That's
kinda the point of it.
-rob
On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 5:18 PM Ralph Corderoy <ralph(a)inputplus.co.uk>
wrote:
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.