When the client reports its CPID to the server, the server hashes it with the email address; the hashed version is what's stored in the DB and exported.
(This bit of paranoia prevents hackers from introducing duplicate host CPIDs into the DB) Oliver Bock wrote: > As I want to pass a unique host identifier to our science app, I also looked > at HOST_INFO's member "host_cpid". However, for some reason the value of this > member on my host (in init_data.xml) differs from its respective (single) > host > table entry in our project database. How can this happen? I thought that this > ID is created only once per host and doesn't change, or is at least > consistent > with its database entry. Can "host_cpid" be used as a unique host identifier > at all - at least for a given project (doesn't need to be unique across > projects)? _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
