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Bug#828787: ITP: libdisorder -- library for entropy measurement of byte streams and other data



On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 11:25:12PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:

> > I hope you will fix this description. I'd only keep the last paragraph,
> 
> Done.
> 
> > and then also explain what algorithm it actually uses to measure the
[...]
> I'd be happy if you would commit a fix to Git (its writable to any DD)
> since you obviously know more about this than me.

Done.

> > I also want to point out that this library is not thread-safe, something
> > which could easily be fixed.
> 
> A patch would be reall welcome.

Done.

> > It also gives the wrong answer when you
> > have an input with more than 2^31-1 of the same bytes in the input, even
> > though it pretends to handle inputs up to 2^63 in length.
> 
> I think this information should be in README.Debian.  What do you think?

I think that would belong in a bugreport sent upstream. But I have also
committed a patch.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
      Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>

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