On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:00 AM, neil.young <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there any paper describing the procedures/principles of node_id > generation anywhere?
No, it's just common knowledge that the chance that two random 128-bit numbers will be the same is negligible. > One should add the term "statistically" to the globally > unique claim, in order to prevent confusions. I don't actually agree with this. Any method of generating unique values has some nonzero chance of producing duplicates. For instance, if you're using a counter, your memory might be reset to zero by ionizing radiation. -Ekr _______________________________________________ P2PSIP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/p2psip
