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Re: DESCHALL Press Release (fwd)




At 8:08 pm -0400 on 6/18/97, Jeff Simmons wrote:

> You might call it luck, but at the time the key was found, the combined
> keyspace searched by the three groups was a bit over 50%, even counting
> in the expected number of duplicate keys searched.

Which, of course, is the expected time to find a key in any random search.

Statistics: It ain't a good idea, it's reality. :-).

Stochastically yours,
Bob Hettinga

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