From: Will French <wfrench@interport.net>
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 95 14:22:25 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: SSL trouble
Message-ID: <199508262118.RAA15661@interport.net>
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> Use integrity checks to ensure that the slaves are acting
> properly. One method of doing this is to keep secret part of
> the known plaintext (say 16 bits). A slave is required to
> report _all_ matches in the range to the master. Slaves who
> report a statistically low number of matches may be considered
> suspicious. It is a simple matter to allocate part of that
> keyspace to another processor for a double-check.

  Please don't do anything like this.  This will prevent people
like me who prefer the "random" method from participating.


Will French  <wfrench@interport.net>