Re: KLive: Linux Kernel Live Usage Monitor

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Aug 31 2005 - 08:11:26 EST


On Mer, 2005-08-31 at 01:19 +0200, Sven Ladegast wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > "Register a box + optional PCI id list/CPU info"
> > Reply with a secured serial number
>
> 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

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