On 8/6/07, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > > 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.
Right, and we don't use commit-reveal because it wouldn't actually add any security (Oskar explained the reasoning). Where exactly is this code? Ian. -- Founder and CEO, Thoof Inc Email: ian at thoof.com Office: +1 512 524 8934 x 100 Cell: +1 512 422 3588 AIM: ian.clarke at mac.com Skype: sanity -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20070806/3724beae/attachment.html>
