From: Eli Brandt <ebrandt@jarthur.cs.hmc.edu>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 94 13:57:03 PDT
To: cypherpunks list <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: Re: Gov't eyes public-key infrastructure
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> From: pcw@access.digex.net (Peter Wayner)

> Especially given that urban folklore about everyone being only 5 hops away
> on the network of life. I.e. Everyone is a friend of a friend of a friend of
> a friend of a friend of anyone else.

The factoid I heard was that if we're randomly chosen people, there
a ~99% chance that I have a friend who has a friend who's your friend.
Dropping one hop, to require us to have a friend in common, reduces
the probability to something very small.

   Eli   ebrandt@hmc.edu

But I probably heard this from a FOAF.