[freehaven-cvs] Protocol clarification.

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Update of /home2/freehaven/cvsroot/doc/pynchon-gate
In directory moria.mit.edu:/tmp/cvs-serv21933

Modified Files:
	pynchon.tex 
Log Message:
Protocol clarification.


Index: pynchon.tex
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RCS file: /home2/freehaven/cvsroot/doc/pynchon-gate/pynchon.tex,v
retrieving revision 1.24
retrieving revision 1.25
diff -u -d -r1.24 -r1.25
--- pynchon.tex	16 Sep 2004 20:01:45 -0000	1.24
+++ pynchon.tex	16 Sep 2004 20:05:52 -0000	1.25
@@ -441,11 +441,11 @@
 field. This reduces the size of the request from linear on the number of
 buckets to fixed~\cite{prng-back}.}
 
-For the final distributor, the client takes the XOR of all of the other
-bit fields that it sent\footnote{Stream cipher output generated by the
-seeds it sent could also be used.} and flips a single bit corresponding to
-the bucket to be retrieved.\footnote{The bandwidth conservation
-optimization does not apply at this step.}
+For a single distributor chosen at random, the client takes the XOR of all
+of the other bit fields that it sent\footnote{Stream cipher output
+generated by the seeds it sent could also be used.} and flips a single bit
+corresponding to the bucket to be retrieved.\footnote{The bandwidth
+conservation optimization does not apply at this step.}
 
 The client XORs the results returned by all the distributors and verifies
 that the path to the hash root appended by the distributors is correct. At

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