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SubjectRe: lease.openlogging.org is unreachable
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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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