Messages in this thread | | | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: lease.openlogging.org is unreachable | Date | Mon, 27 Dec 2004 01:11:01 +0100 |
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On 2004-12-27, at 01:03, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 12:13:55AM +0100, Martin Dalecki wrote: > >> No the first value that worked in the whole setup of course. And I >> said it clearly that would be just a workaround because uniqueness >> can be established in the easiest way on the side of the part which >> is interested in the persistency - the server peer not the client. > > actually, the bk lease server could give out id's and those could be > caches in ~/.bk<whatever> --- server side it could be a counter that > you just xor with some s3kr1t value and then blind using a hash or > cryto-function, something good-enough (statistically unlikely to > break) is all that is required, it doesn't have to be perfect surely? >
Right that's precisely what's called a cookie or token. But it would involve a change in the on-wire protocol.
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