[p2p-hackers] Chord comments

[Roger Dingledine]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 08:45:32PM -0400, Carl Bosley wrote:
> For P > 1, for N >> 1 the overlap is negligible enough that
> 
> (1 - e^{-N/M})^P
> 
> is a good approximation.
 
Excellent. This is what I was looking for.

I think the overall story is that if you have significantly more possible
IPs at your disposal than the current number of machines in the network,
then you're going to win -- but only against a few targets, not against
everybody.

Thanks,
--Roger