Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 05:54:26 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> To: Igor Robul <igorr@speechpro.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ... Message-ID: <20060809055245.J7522@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20060809072313.GA19441@sysadm.stc> References: <20060807003815.C7522@ganymede.hub.org> <20060808102819.GB64879@augusta.de> <20060808153921.V7522@ganymede.hub.org> <44D8EC98.8020801@utdallas.edu> <20060808201359.S7522@ganymede.hub.org> <44D91F02.90107@mawer.org> <20060808212719.L7522@ganymede.hub.org> <20060809072313.GA19441@sysadm.stc>
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On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Igor Robul wrote: > On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:30:42PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> Could create problems long term .. one thing I will be using the >> IPs to do is: >> >> SELECT ip, count(1) FROM systems GROUP BY ip ORDER BY count DESC; >> >> to look for any 'abnormalities' like todays with Armenia ... >> >> hashing it would make stuff like that fairly difficult ... > You can make _two_ hashes and then concatenate to form unique key. > Then you still be able to see "a lot of single IPs". Personaly, I dont > care very much about IP/hostname disclosure :-) Except that you are disclosing that each and every time you send out an email, or hit a web site ... :) Regardless, though ... what do ppl suggest here? Simple 'md5' hash? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664
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