[tor-dev] Draft Proposal: Random Number Generation During Tor Voting

[Paul Syverson]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 12:39:50AM +1000, teor wrote:
> 
> > On 4 Aug 2015, at 00:32 , Ian Goldberg <iang at cs.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > Nice work!  A couple of minor comments:
> > 
> > On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 05:03:38PM +0300, George Kadianakis wrote:
> >>   A shared random document requires 50% + 1 authority signatures to be
> >>   considered valid. As this proposal is being written, there are 9
> >>   authorities thus we would need 5.
> > 
> > Careful there.  "50% + 1" of 9 is 5.5, so you'd need 6.  I assume you
> > *want* to only require 5, so you should rephrase "50% + 1" (it appears a
> > couple of times in the document).
> 
> In common usage, "50% + 1" means floor(50% + 1).
> But I agree this should be clarified.

Ermm that would be 5 in this case. I think you mean floor(50%)+1
but yes basically lots of violent agreement here. I think the shed
should be blue.

-Paul