Re: set Global ID field to SHA hash of domain name

2003-09-12 Thread Eugene M. Kim
Hello, I asked a coworker (she's a cryptographer) about this, and she said that output of SHA-1 is random enough that it should not exhibit any noticeable trait in its result even if we fed it with inputs that all exhibit a common trait (e.g. domain names). Assuming this uniformity, the probabili

Re: set Global ID field to SHA hash of domain name

2003-09-12 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It did occur to me that the domain name sellers are in a better > position to give out these prefixes than the traditional IP address > registries, though. Especially if you consider that they'd just be > selling domain names under c.f.ip6.arp

Re: set Global ID field to SHA hash of domain name

2003-09-12 Thread George Gross
Hi Iljitsch, On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On vrijdag, sep 12, 2003, at 11:07 Europe/Amsterdam, George Gross wrote: > > > At the risk of triggering another firestorm of pro/con debate, is > > there any reason why the centrally assigned Global ID defined by > > hinden-ipv

Re: set Global ID field to SHA hash of domain name

2003-09-12 Thread George Gross
Hi Zefram, On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Zefram wrote: > George Gross wrote: > > At the risk of triggering another firestorm of pro/con debate, is > >there any reason why the centrally assigned Global ID defined by > >hinden-ipv6-global-local-addr-02.txt could not be simply the low-order 40 > >bits of

Re: set Global ID field to SHA hash of domain name

2003-09-12 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On vrijdag, sep 12, 2003, at 11:07 Europe/Amsterdam, George Gross wrote: At the risk of triggering another firestorm of pro/con debate, is there any reason why the centrally assigned Global ID defined by hinden-ipv6-global-local-addr-02.txt could not be simply the low-order 40 bits of a SHA hash

Re: set Global ID field to SHA hash of domain name

2003-09-12 Thread Zefram
George Gross wrote: > At the risk of triggering another firestorm of pro/con debate, is >there any reason why the centrally assigned Global ID defined by >hinden-ipv6-global-local-addr-02.txt could not be simply the low-order 40 >bits of a SHA hash of a domain name? i.e. if you own the domain

set Global ID field to SHA hash of domain name

2003-09-12 Thread George Gross
Hi, At the risk of triggering another firestorm of pro/con debate, is there any reason why the centrally assigned Global ID defined by hinden-ipv6-global-local-addr-02.txt could not be simply the low-order 40 bits of a SHA hash of a domain name? i.e. if you own the domain name, you get the