[freenet-dev] Creating initial node locations

[Matthew Toseland]

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.
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