On Monday 06 August 2007 00:59, Ian Clarke wrote: > On 8/5/07, Ian Clarke <ian at locut.us> wrote: > > Here at DEFCON it has been pointed out by the Gnunet guys that we are > > creating a node location by combining locations supplied by two > > different nodes by taking one to the power of the other. > > Actually, this wasn't quite right. This error is made when > determining a random number between 0 and 1 to determine whether we > should swap or not.
No, the two random numbers are integers, and we XOR them to produce another random number. This is a trivial collaborative random number generation algorithm. > > This could explain all sorts of problems we've been having with swapping. > > Ian. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20070806/8173f534/attachment.pgp>
