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Date:      Thu, 30 May 2013 18:46:45 +0000
From:      George Liaskos <geo.liaskos@gmail.com>
To:        d@delphij.net
Cc:        freebsd-chromium@freebsd.org, phajdan.jr@chromium.org
Subject:   Re: using API keys in the FreeBSD Chromium port
Message-ID:  <CANcjpOA0ojn3FewS-gWCC_o=Cv9M3Tk9Op6u=n5bYS_p4b7Lqg@mail.gmail.com>
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> What's the purpose of these keys?  E.g. are they used to encrypt
> sensitive information, or are they used to identify that "this user is
> running this client, unchanged"?
>

>From what i understand, the key should be unique per "derivative".
It's used to identify the client, like User Agent one could say but with a
quota on API calls.

In this sense the "Official" Chromium port on FreeBSD should have a unique
key.

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/chromium-dev/Qks4W0xLxqc



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