On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 12:32 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:37:57AM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: > > > BTW, You may be better off using "uuidgen -t" to generate the UUID in > > > the smolt RPM, since that will use 12 bits of randomness from > > > /dev/random, plus the MAC, address and timestamp. So even if there is > > > zero randomness in /dev/random, and the time is January 1, 1970, at > > > least the MAC will contribute some uniqueness to the UUID. > > > > I haven't checked how uuidgen uses the MAC, but I would suggest that > > that is not something Fedora should jump at doing - although it would > > help ensure unique UUIDs, it also contributes to the tinfoil hat > > responses that usually come up with things like smolt. > > Huh? What's the concern? All you are submitting is a list of > hardware devices in your system. That's hardly anything sensitive....
Right, but the MAC is globally unique (well, that's normally true) so it is an identifiable user characteristic, moreso than just a list of PCI device IDs sitting on a particular bus. It's silly, but there it is. Jon. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/