Implemented Lagged Fibonacci generator PRNG providing high-speed, medium-quality numbers.

[Knogle]

Just presenting one more option.
Last one i'd like to implement, is a crypto-secure PRNG like AES-CTR.

[Knogle]

I didn't like the statistical results, so i have implemented the substract-and-carry version of a lagged fibonacci generator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtract_with_carry

During testing, it has better results than ISAAC-64, it's on par with MT19937.

[PartialVolume]

Looking good, 16 drive test underway. About 5 hrs to completion.

nwipe_fibonacci_first_16_drive_test-2024-03-21_09.28.22.mp4

[PartialVolume]

Just a couple of errors for correction.

and

[Knogle]

Thanks a lot, fixed that!

[PartialVolume]

Looks great, thanks. 16 drive test passed.

[PartialVolume]

Last problem, formatting does not pass.

-/* The global options struct. */
-nwipe_options_t nwipe_options;
+    /* The global options struct. */
+    nwipe_options_t nwipe_options;
 
 int nwipe_options_parse( int argc, char** argv )
 {

Sorry, if you could fix that. Once corrected are you happy with this branch being merged? I don't see any issues so looks good from my perspective.

[PartialVolume]

opps, another problem that is affecting compile, a stray character in options.c

gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..     -O0 -g -Wall -Wextra -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600 -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600 -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600  -MT options.o -MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o options.o options.c &&\
mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po
options.c:1:1: error: stray ‘\’ in program
    1 | \/*
      | ^
make[2]: *** [Makefile:500: options.o] Error 1

[Knogle]

Sounds good to me! Should be fixed now.
Could you run a full test maybe for XORo as well?

[PartialVolume]

Sounds good to me! Should be fixed now. Could you run a full test maybe for XORo as well?

Yes, I'll start the xoro test this evening.