<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matthew Toseland</b> <<a href="mailto:toad@amphibian.dyndns.org">toad@amphibian.dyndns.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Monday 06 August 2007 00:59, Ian Clarke wrote:<br>> On 8/5/07, Ian Clarke <<a href="mailto:ian@locut.us">ian@locut.us</a>> wrote:<br>> > Here at DEFCON it has been pointed out by the Gnunet guys that we are
<br>> > creating a node location by combining locations supplied by two<br>> > different nodes by taking one to the power of the other.<br>><br>> Actually, this wasn't quite right. This error is made when
<br>> determining a random number between 0 and 1 to determine whether we<br>> should swap or not.<br><br>No, the two random numbers are integers, and we XOR them to produce another<br>random number. This is a trivial collaborative random number generation
<br>algorithm.</blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div> Right, and we don't use commit-reveal because it wouldn't actually add any security (Oskar explained the reasoning).</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder">
</div><div>Where exactly is this code?</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Ian.</div></div><br>-- <br>Founder and CEO, Thoof Inc<br>Email: <a href="mailto:ian@thoof.com">ian@thoof.com</a><br>Office: +1 512 524 8934 x 100
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