[freenet-dev] Creating initial node locations

[Ian Clarke]

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.

This could explain all sorts of problems we've been having with swapping.

Ian.

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