Re: intent of package seti@home
Ron wrote:
> sending a false positive would be pointless.. it would almost instantly
> be exposed.. but there is a fairly large time window to perfect the art
> of sending false negatives.. (still a statistically fruitless exercise
> for one person given the size of the keyspace, but then people *do* buy
> lotto tickets ;-)
It's not fruitless if that person knows *which* negatives to fake :)
(In other words, if you're cracking a real key, not just a challenge,
then the potential for sabotage goes way up).
Richard Braakman
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