On Monday 06 August 2007 21:29, Ian Clarke wrote: > 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).
We do use commit-reveal. Are you saying we should get rid of it? > > Where exactly is this code? LocationManager.java. > > Ian. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20070806/2659f8bd/attachment.pgp>
