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@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.
>
> --
> Cheers, Ralph.
>