Author: Vincent Vega
Date: 05:46:25 09/21/00
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On September 21, 2000 at 02:35:24, Ratko V Tomic wrote: >> The person who wrote such a program might even challenge Kasparov to >> a match, and you can imagine that maybe a hundred thousand people >> would volunteer their computers to participate in such a match. > >It wouldn't take long before Kasparov's fans, or any opponents, would hook into >the network (and/or hack the program) and feed the phoney results of their >search sub-tree. It would be very difficult to control such problems. How would >you verify that 100,000 people are honest and reliable. 1. Return control codes with the results to make it much harder to fool the server without complete reverse engineering of the program. 2. Send the same data to two or more participants and verify that their results match.
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