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Re: Information identifiers

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Szabo)
Tue Jan 31 12:23:44 1995

From: szabo@netcom.com (Nick Szabo)
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 04:50:15 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <v01510117ab53287a2b07@[128.29.33.13]> from "Wm A Carpenter" at Jan 30, 95 05:39:02 pm
Reply-To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

 
> Just a quick question -- why "at least log2(the number of customers)"?
 
That's the number of bits needed to make a unique fingerprint
for each customer.

Nick

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