[freenet-dev] Weighted coin is better was Re: Moving to a simple coin was Re: Tunnels vs premix routing

[Michael Rogers]

Matthew Toseland wrote:
>> But the samples for a weighted coin are independent, whereas with a hop 
>> counter they're not, so given enough requests the attacker always learns 
>> more from a weighted coin.
> 
> Why are samples for a hop counter dependant?

The hop counter is deterministic - all the originator's requests should 
have the same HTL, so the attacker doesn't learn anything from 
additional positive samples. But with a weighted coin every linkable 
sample gives the attacker additional information.

Cheers,
Michael