Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 22:45:48 -0500 From: pauls@utdallas.edu To: Antony Mawer <fbsd-questions@mawer.org>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ... Message-ID: <18983F75ECCB22D9B189A989@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> In-Reply-To: <44D91F02.90107@mawer.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> <44D91F02.90107@mawer.org>
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--==========D9F3C10BFDD193C3689A========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --On August 9, 2006 9:32:18 AM +1000 Antony Mawer=20 <fbsd-questions@mawer.org> wrote: > 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... > I like that idea. I'm ready to submit my workstation, but I'm still a bit = hesitant about some servers I admin....A one way hash would alleviate my=20 concerns. Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ --==========D9F3C10BFDD193C3689A==========--
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