From: "Peter Trei" <trei@process.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 95 11:53:33 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: SSL trouble
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> >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.

This is starting to sound like alt.sex.bondage....


Peter Trei
Senior Software Engineer
Purveyor Development Team                                
Process Software Corporation
http://www.process.com
trei@process.com