[140741] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Had an idea - looking for a math buff to tell me if it's possible
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Wed May 18 16:53:56 2011
In-Reply-To: <4DD4299D.8050402@csuohio.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 16:33:34 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Michael Holstein <michael.holstein@csuohio.edu>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Michael Holstein
<michael.holstein@csuohio.edu> wrote:
>
>> Just a weird idea I had. =A0If it's a good idea then please consider thi=
s
>> intellectual property.
>>
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> It's easy .. the zeros are fatter than the ones.
no no no.. it's simply, since the OP posited a math solution, md5.
ship the size of file + hash, compute file on the other side. All
files can be moved anywhere regardless of the size of the file in a
single packet.
The solution is left as an exercise for the reader.
