<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I'm sure that's the etymology but fuzzing isn't exactly random. That's kinda the point of it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">-rob</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 5:18 PM Ralph Corderoy <<a href="mailto:ralph@inputplus.co.uk">ralph@inputplus.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
Rob wrote:<br>
> "Fuzzing" as it is now called (for no reason I can intuit)<br>
<br>
Barton Miller describes coining the term.<br>
<br>
‘That night, I was logged on to the Unix system in my office via<br>
a dial-up phone line over a 1200 baud modem. ...<br>
I wanted a name that would evoke the feeling of random, unstructured<br>
data. After trying out several ideas, I settled on the term “fuzz”.’<br>
<br>
— <a href="https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~bart/fuzz/Foreword1.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~bart/fuzz/Foreword1.html</a><br>
<br>
Line noise inspired him, as he describes.<br>
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Cheers, Ralph.<br>
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