[freenet-dev] Why we decide once whether to decrement at HTL 10

[Matthew Toseland]

On Tuesday 15 January 2008 16:22, Michael Tänzer wrote:
> How about a combination of HTL and weighted coin: We don't only
> decrement probabilisticly at 10 and 1 but on all the way down from 10 to
> 0 and flip the coin each time so no (100% sure) assumption can be made
> what we will do next time. 

We used to do it each time, I changed it to thwart statistical attacks (hmmm, 
50% of this splitfile request is HTL 10, 50% of it is HTL 9, I wonder what 
that could mean? vs 100% is HTL 10, that means something else, vs 50/25/25 
10/9/8 etc).

I will get to answering the rest of your mail soon.
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