Won't work...
Matt has control over his system - but not mine -- see? -Sneex- :]
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Bill Jones * Systems Programmer * http://www.fccj.org/cgi/mail?sneex
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//\ Perl, Apache, MySQL, PHP3,
v_/_ Ultra 10, LinuxPPC, BeOS...
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> From: Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I don't understand, just take the first 1k of data from /dev/random and store
> that in a file somewhere. Protect that file appropriately, and use the
> contents of it. It's completely under your control and you can distribute it
> to share the secret across several load balanced hosts.
>
> Why would you look for things that aren't under your control and would tie you
> to your ethernet card or particular hardware or whatever?
>> Matt Sergeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> But it's sensitive to perl upgrades. I'm pretty certain there must be
>> _something_ I can use. I'm thinking perhaps of join('', `ls -la
>> $some_dir_created_on_install`), but again, the sysadmin could easily
>> inadvertently touch something in that dir.
