On Mar 5, 2005, at 22:13, Stephen Ryan wrote:
While
there may be some usefulness to this technique in some limited
circumstances, it is *not* useful for tracking any particular device
across the wilds of the Internet or even for identifying devices among a
small-ish set; there are simply too many other devices out there and too
few unique clock skews for it to work as a unique identifier (not to
mention the fact that the Birthday Paradox would screw it up as well).
It might be useful as an additional identifier in an authentication system that uses secure machines (if the possibility of a secure hard drive image being stolen is a concern). More tech that can be used for good or evil...
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