Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 09:32:18 +1000 From: Antony Mawer <fbsd-questions@mawer.org> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> Cc: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ... Message-ID: <44D91F02.90107@mawer.org> In-Reply-To: <20060808201359.S7522@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060807003815.C7522@ganymede.hub.org> <20060808102819.GB64879@augusta.de> <20060808153921.V7522@ganymede.hub.org> <44D8EC98.8020801@utdallas.edu> <20060808201359.S7522@ganymede.hub.org>
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On 9/08/2006 9:16 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> Can you tell me exactly what you do with those two pieces of data? Is >> there any way that information would be accessible from the internet? > > Absolutely nothing else we do with it ... it just gives us a unique key > to work with ... in fact, assuming each of your servers use a different > IP, there is no reason you couldn't do the uname trick above to hide the > hostname ... > > Unless someone breaks into the server, or database, somehow, the data > isn't accessible ... What if we improved upon this - if instead of storing the hostname and IP address, we stored a one-way hash of this information? OpenSSH in recent versions takes the same approach with its authorized_keys files... -Antony
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