Re: [PHP] MAC address user recognition?

2003-02-21 Thread Ernest E Vogelsinger
At 05:13 21.02.2003, Jason Sheets said: [snip] MAC addresses are used for on a LAN and not the Internet. Using a MAC address might work for identification on a LAN BUT in most operating systems you can easily change the effective MAC address on the card.

Re: [PHP] MAC address user recognition?

2003-02-21 Thread Ernest E Vogelsinger
At 06:28 21.02.2003, Chris Cook said: [snip] I have used MAC address authentication using the arp table and it worked for what I used it for, but it does only work over the local network and spoofing is an issue. Using a cookie in conjuction with a MAC

Re: [PHP] MAC address user recognition?

2003-02-21 Thread Jeff Lewis
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 3:40 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] MAC address user recognition? If you were concerned about the overhead of SSL you could make only your login page go over SSL and the rest of your site go over normal HTTP. You can do this, but you

RE: [PHP] MAC address user recognition?

2003-02-21 Thread Larry Brown
coming in. Larry S. Brown Dimension Networks, Inc. (727) 723-8388 -Original Message- From: Leo Spalteholz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 12:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] MAC address user recognition? On February 20, 2003 08:13 pm, Jason Sheets

Re: [PHP] MAC address user recognition?

2003-02-20 Thread Ray Hunter
Remember that the mac address gets changed by devices on the network... -- Ray On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 20:29, Leo Spalteholz wrote: I've been thinking about how to do authentication and user recognition for my site without cookies. I had this idea but I don't really know if its possible at

Re: [PHP] MAC address user recognition?

2003-02-20 Thread Jason Sheets
MAC addresses are used for on a LAN and not the Internet. Using a MAC address might work for identification on a LAN BUT in most operating systems you can easily change the effective MAC address on the card. It would probably be better to look for some other form of identification like SSL

Re: [PHP] MAC address user recognition?

2003-02-20 Thread Chris Cook
anyone have any suggestions on where to start learning SSL? Thanks, Chris From: Jason Sheets [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Leo Spalteholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] MAC address user recognition? Date: 20 Feb 2003 21:13:16 -0700 MAC addresses are used for on a LAN

Re: [PHP] MAC address user recognition?

2003-02-20 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On February 20, 2003 08:13 pm, Jason Sheets wrote: MAC addresses are used for on a LAN and not the Internet. Using a MAC address might work for identification on a LAN BUT in most operating systems you can easily change the effective MAC address on the card. Good call. I thought there was