From: ab411@detroit.freenet.org (David R. Conrad)
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 95 11:53:07 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: SSL trouble
Message-ID: <199508281852.OAA22478@detroit.freenet.org>
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Patrick Horgan <patrick@Verity.COM> writes:
>I did a distributed scheme for something else that had two levels, a master
>and a group of slaves.  Only the slaves talked to the master.  For this 
>effort I think a variation of the idea would be better.  Have all of the
>brutes contact the master, who will, in the first transaction assign them
>to the next slave in a round-robin fashion.

Why not just have the brutes pick a slave at random?  Of course, you need
to give them a complete list of slaves to choose from.  But then the only
difference between the master and the slaves will be that the master
doesn't get any keyspace (it's got it all to begin with) and doesn't
report any results upward.

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David R. Conrad, ab411@detroit.freenet.org, http://www.grfn.org/~conrad
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