On Di, 08.01.19 10:11, Richard Hughes (hughsi...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 08:57, Lennart Poettering <mzerq...@0pointer.de> wrote: > > Yes, Tom's proposal makes sense. Calculate the UUID you submit as > > HMAC(machined_id, CONCAT(fixedappuuid, unixtime/432000)) > > Out of interest, how is using a HMAC different to just using the > machine-id appended with a salt, sha256'd?
I am not sure how you'd define "salt" in this case. Randomly generated and stored somewhere? i mean, storing something somewhere is what should really be avoided I think. Also, you want to use standard primitives, and a HMAC is one that is designed for purposes like this. For the reasons why a HMAC is constructed the way it is, read the wikipedia page. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
