richard offer wrote: >A suggestion by David Wheeler was to use the first 8 chars of an md5sum, so >I'm using > >/* sys_security modid > * Generated from > * echo "SGI Trusted Linux" | md5sum | cut -c -8 > */ >#define SYS_SECURITY_MODID 0xc4c7be22 > > >This doesn't reqire a web infrastructure and yet is less susceptable to a >human non-random number generator.... > A fine idea. You're right that it is far less collision-prone than just asking people to pick numbers "at random". But since the results are not memorable, it would be handy to have it documented somewhere what the numbers are for each module, however they were chosen. Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. Chief Scientist, WireX Communications, Inc. http://wirex.com/~crispin/ Security Hardened Linux Distribution: http://immunix.org Available for purchase: http://wirex.com/Products/Immunix/purchase.html _______________________________________________ linux-security-module mailing list linux-security-moduleat_private http://mail.wirex.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-security-module
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