On 03/09/2010 17:01, Marsh Ray wrote: > I played with some simulations with randomly-generated mappings, the > observed value would at times wander over 1.0 BoE/log2 N.
I think when I did this, I fully enumerated the behaviour of a truncated hash (e.g. the first 20 bits of MD5). Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.links.org/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com