Re: Microsoft's Holographic Bittorrent

> If you know a+b and a-b, you can determine both a and b, since a =
> ((a+b) + (a-b)) / 2 and b = ((a+b) - (a-b)) / 2.
>
> Using modulo 2^32 arithmetic on every four bytes of the file would allow
> enough combinations.

John can you please explain the maths (and results) behind this in more
detail? ie. are you saying that to transfer a 10mb file youd only need 5mb
communication?
Thankyou!
Received on Thu Sep 29 21:44:48 2005