Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

"Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Generating a unique anonymous key is easy, proving why we need it is not.

That's how we can tell the differences between server to server.

Ok, here it is, " ifconfig | sha256 | md5 ". 16^32 unique anonymous
keys. Every host needs to have a NIC to send results so all ifconfig
outputs will be different. Now... What does this solve and why do we
need to add 32 extra bytes?

I guess we are not suppose to generate the key from ifconfig, which
will change in some circumstances.

(20 + 32) bytes * (10^7) = 495.910645 megabytes. The FreeBSD team
would need a 6.6Mbit/s uplink to handle peak load assuming 50% of the
hosts are set to UTC/GMT time and all trigger within 5 minutes of each
other.... I'm not going to pay for that connection.

That IS the problem. What about randomize it in a certain interval?

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