this is along the lines of my, maybe bad explained, proposal.

On Monday 08 September 2008 14:50:41 Sven Schwarz wrote:
> Hi guys!
>
> What about generating a "unique-enough" ID via GPG or SSH, that is,
> the user uses gpg, ssh, or alike to generate some key / ID once(!) and
> puts this into, say,
> /home/user/.nepomuk-id ?
> Later on, this personal-ID generation can be done automatically by KDE
> (without any user intervention).
> The important thing is: when the user re-installs the system and copies
> his old user folder, then he will still have the same ID.
>
> What do you think about that easy solution?
>
> Cheers
> Sven
>
> Hari krishna Anandhan wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Sebastian Trüg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> >> 1. Change your system and all your URIs may become "wrong"
> >> 2. This scheme is never 100%, except we use the MAC of the network card
> >> maybe (and then 1. screws everything up again). Two systems may very
> >> well generate the same URI.
> >> 3. I use two computers with mirrored data, one for home work, and one
> >> for remote work (notebook). They obviously would have different
> >> checksums. Thus, I would need some additional code that "fixes" all the
> >> URIs all the time when syncing.
> >
> > When I was refering to a 'machine indentifier', I was actually
> > thinking of a randomly generated UUID (like Daniel and Rajeev had
> > said), not really a checksum that is generated as per the machine
> > configuration. The checksum is usually done to prevent user from
> > transferring things to other systems, but we would just want a simple
> > UUID that enables transferring by reducing clashes ;)
> >
> >> So other proposal: never care about URIs locally. Only when exchanging
> >> information.
> >
> > But, why would that be needed? Why not use 'machine identifier' locally
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