On 11/20/08 08:41, Richard Hartmann wrote:
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 03:45, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:Which part of the hardware? And what if you upgrade/replace the bit of hardware upon which your "host id" is based?Switching RAM should prolly not change the ID, but motherboard, CPU, disks etc are all fair game. And as long as USB does not play a role, I can live with _any_ hardware change creating a new ID as long as it is deterministic and reproducable.
Even though the serve is still, metaphysically, "the same"?You could take the serial numbers from various bits of hardware, and MD5 or SHA1 (yes, I know these are cryptographically weak, but remember the limited scope of the task at hand) the concatenated string.
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