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Re: Merkle Signature Scheme is the most secure signature scheme possible
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Fri Sep 3 18:32:36 2010
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:22:56 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@links.org>
To: Marsh Ray <marsh@extendedsubset.com>
CC: Zooko O'Whielacronx <zooko@zooko.com>,
Cryptography List <cryptography@metzdowd.com>,
Discussion of cryptography and related <cryptography@randombit.net>
In-Reply-To: <4C811BC5.2080809@extendedsubset.com>
On 03/09/2010 17:01, Marsh Ray wrote:
> I played with some simulations with randomly-generated mappings, the
> observed value would at times wander over 1.0 BoE/log2 N.
I think when I did this, I fully enumerated the behaviour of a truncated
hash (e.g. the first 20 bits of MD5).
Cheers,
Ben.
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