User talk:Pulpspy
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ClockworkSoul 03:47, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia.
Often when I am trying to explain things to someone else, that person teaches me a few things that fill in some of the gaps in my knowledge.
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The edit http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dining_cryptographers_protocol&diff=prev&oldid=59572201 deleted an explanation of why we need at least 5 dining cryptographers for perfect anonymity.
I think the "5 needed" assumed that, after one person picked a random number, that person showed the number to *both* neighbors (left and right) -- so 3 people know that number.
The protocol on that page has that person show the number to only one neighbor -- only 2 people know that number. So do we really need only 3 in that case? -- User:DavidCary --70.189.77.59 19:48, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
