[Thomas Anders <thomas.anders@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gerald Combs wrote:
> Thomas Anders wrote:
> > Can this be improved? My initial idea was to
> > - add a test scenario that also adds some sort of fuzz to the preference
> > settings (i.e. always changes them slightly)?
> > - have more people run randpkt/fuzz testing themselves with *their*
> > current (non-default) preference settings
[...]
> If we were to make the hints more easily parsed (e.g. by quoting any
> enum options), we could pick a preference at random and feed a fuzzed
> value to tethereal using the "-o" flag.  To make parsing easier we could
> provide a method (e.g. "-G preferences") to dump the default preferences
> to stdout.

Reasonably addresses my first idea. What about the second? Should we add a "fuzz 
testing" section to the wiki that describes how people can join the effort? On a 
related note, the Wiki Security page already needs an update now that we have 
fuzz testing:

http://wiki.ethereal.com/Security#head-9c187c125c2ea93d6fc2c6c6e908752ff6e8e39e


+Thomas

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