I wonder if this is possible: - Take a hash of the original file. Keep a counter. - Generate data in some sequential method on sender side (for example simply starting at 0 and iterating until you generate the same as the original data) - Each time you iterate, take the hash of the generated data. If it matches the hash of the original file, increment counter. - Send the hash and the counter value to recipient. - Recipient performs same sequential generation method, stopping when counter reached.
Any thoughts? Heath On 18 May 2011 21:07, Landon Stewart <lstew...@superb.net> wrote: > Lets say you had a file that was 1,000,000,000 characters consisting of > 8,000,000,000bits. What if instead of transferring that file through the > interwebs you transmitted a mathematical equation to tell a computer on the > other end how to *construct* that file. First you'd feed the file into a > cruncher of some type to reduce the pattern of 8,000,000,000 bits into an > equation somehow. Sure this would take time, I realize that. The equation > would then be transmitted to the other computer where it would use its > mad-math-skillz to *figure out the answer* which would theoretically be the > same pattern of bits. Thus the same file would emerge on the other end. > > The real question here is how long would it take for a regular computer to > do this kind of math? > > Just a weird idea I had. If it's a good idea then please consider this > intellectual property. LOL > > > -- > Landon Stewart <lstew...@superb.net> > SuperbHosting.Net by Superb Internet Corp. > Toll Free (US/Canada): 888-354-6128 x 4199 > Direct: 206-438-5879 > Web hosting and more "Ahead of the Rest": http://www.superbhosting.net >
