On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Alan Cox wrote:
Registering means to create an ID for the system? Something out of
timestamp plus your PCI IDs and CPU info and so on?
Or have the other end issue you some kind of secure cookie, which was my
thought. Generating it locally as you suggest would be even better as a
hardware change would make a box change identity automatically
Reading twice is sometimes better. :) It must have been late yesterday...
Well changing ID automagically can be okay because a system changes its ID
from time to time and so you cannot track a certain system/person easily.
Why not generating a unique system ID at compilation stage of the kernel
if the apopriate kernel option is enabled? This needn't have something to
do with klive...just a unique kernel-ID or something like that.
klive, if userspace or not, finally makes use of this ID to generate live
stats of kernel usage. PCI-IDs, CPU and whatever else could be used as a
salt to generate a really UNIQE ID...
Sven
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