On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 02:32:46PM +0100, Chris Crowther wrote: > On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Chojin wrote: > > > I mean fingerprint is a sort a computer id and if I gline a users with > > *@*.aol.com with his fingeprint, even if user changes his IP (with isp > > reconnection) he is still glined because his fingerprint is glined. Other > > users from aol can join. > > OK, I see what you're talking about now, but how would you go > about generating a fingerprint? Baring in mind that we have no access to > their local system to use details such as CPU ID...and we likely never > will have either (I'm not sure I'd want that information from the users). > > The only way I can see of doing it would involve a Client <-> > Server protocol change to allow the sending of a FINGERPRINT :<some > hash> during the connection phase...but this would be so easy to fake > (you could just generate a random fingerprint) that it would be > totaly useless.
Perhaps he means something like my EAID. See chapter 'Identities' on http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/irc/run-irc.htm for the design. Basically that means that all users have to register somehow somewhere and practically it means that a working e-mail adress is thrown into the equation for authentication. -- Carlo Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
