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 - 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/