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Re: Gov't eyes public-key infrastructure
> From: [email protected] (Peter Wayner)
> Especially given that urban folklore about everyone being only 5 hops away
> on the network of life. I.e. Everyone is a friend of a friend of a friend of
> a friend of a friend of anyone else.
The factoid I heard was that if we're randomly chosen people, there
a ~99% chance that I have a friend who has a friend who's your friend.
Dropping one hop, to require us to have a friend in common, reduces
the probability to something very small.
Eli [email protected]
But I probably heard this from a FOAF.