Matt Sergeant wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Feb 2000, Doug Kyle wrote:
> >
> > What about generating some value from the MAC address of the server's
> > NIC(s)?
> > ifconifg <interface name> ether, or arp <hostname> will return MAC
> > addresses.
>
> Doh! Just realised that producing a secret from something that's totally
> *not* a secret is really dumb :)
>
> Next option? :)
>
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Well, that's why I said "generating some value from", and you asked for
something not affected by software upgrades. Since you're trying to grab
such info from varous boxes with various OSs, how secret can you get?
Interesting, but not really mod_perl, although I'm curious to know what you
come up with. I'm certainly not an expert on such matters, but I've
included an authoratative quote on the subject below. Good Luck.
"Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is,
of course,
living in a state of sin."
- - John Von Nuemann
