Invisible wrote:

> I just had a closer look at my test data. For reasons *beyond* my powers 
> of comprehension, I used a hand-written LCG psuedorandom number 
> generator to generate the file contents. Trouble is, the particular 
> coefficients I picked have a period of... four.
> 
> *WHY* would I do such a thing?! >_<

Somebody on the Haskell list just wrote

"Did you also by any chance patch Debian's OpenSSL a few years back?"

I think I just got 0WN3D. :-(

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