random: Fix off-by-one in fast path selection of Randomizer::getBytesFromString() (#10449) With a single byte we can choose offsets between 0x00 and 0xff, thus 0x100 different offsets. W
random: Fix off-by-one in fast path selection of Randomizer::getBytesFromString() (#10449) With a single byte we can choose offsets between 0x00 and 0xff, thus 0x100 different offsets. We only need to use the slow path for sources of more than 0x100 bytes. The previous version was correct with regard to the output expectations, it was just slower than necessary. Better fix this now while we still can before being bound by our BC guarantees with regard to emitted sequences. This also adds a test to verify the behavior: For powers of two we never reject any values during rejection sampling, we just need to mask off the unneeded bits. Thus we can specifically verify that the number of calls to the engine match the expected amount. We also verify that all the possible values are emitted to make sure the masking does not remove any required bits. For inputs longer than 0x100 bytes we need trust the `range()` implementation to be unbiased, but still verify the number of engine calls and perform a basic output check.
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