[82019] in Cypherpunks
Re: DESCHALL Press Release (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Wed Jun 18 23:00:08 1997
In-Reply-To: <199706190008.RAA10910@goblin.punk.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:09:13 -0400
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
At 8:08 pm -0400 on 6/18/97, Jeff Simmons wrote:
> You might call it luck, but at the time the key was found, the combined
> keyspace searched by the three groups was a bit over 50%, even counting
> in the expected number of duplicate keys searched.
Which, of course, is the expected time to find a key in any random search.
Statistics: It ain't a good idea, it's reality. :-).
Stochastically yours,
Bob Hettinga
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