From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261407AbUL0AE0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Dec 2004 19:04:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261415AbUL0AEZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Dec 2004 19:04:25 -0500 Received: from pimout3-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.63.102]:32388 "EHLO pimout3-ext.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261407AbUL0AEW (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Dec 2004 19:04:22 -0500 Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 16:03:38 -0800 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Martin Dalecki Cc: Florian Weimer , Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List , M?ns Rullg?rd , Larry McVoy Subject: Re: lease.openlogging.org is unreachable Message-ID: <20041227000338.GC29854@taniwha.stupidest.org> References: <20041226011222.GA1896@work.bitmover.com> <20041226030957.GA8512@work.bitmover.com> <20041226160205.GB26574@work.bitmover.com> <20041226181837.GA28786@work.bitmover.com> <1104093456.16487.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> <3ECEAB02-578B-11D9-BCB8-000A95E3BCE4@dalecki.de> <871xdc7jfk.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 --- 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?