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bug#72445: shuf with both input-range and head-count biased


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#72445: shuf with both input-range and head-count biased
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2024 00:10:56 -0700
User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird

Thanks for the bug report. The bug appears to be due to a weakness in ISAAC that was reported in 2006 by Jean-Philippe Aumasson of the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland. Although Aumasson wrote a paper about it, nobody seems to have connected the paper with coreutils.

I installed the attached patch, which fixed things for me, and am marking the bug as fixed.

Attachment: 0001-shuf-fix-randomness-bug.patch
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