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Re: Had an idea - looking for a math buff to tell me if it's possible with today's technology.


From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 16:33:34 -0400

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Michael Holstein
<michael.holstein () csuohio edu> wrote:

Just a weird idea I had.  If it's a good idea then please consider this
intellectual property.


It's easy .. the zeros are fatter than the ones.

no no no.. it's simply, since the OP posited a math solution, md5.
ship the size of file + hash, compute file on the other side. All
files can be moved anywhere regardless of the size of the file in a
single packet.


The solution is left as an exercise for the reader.


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