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chrisat_private

* richard offer (offerat_private) 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....

Yes, I prefer this method.  You could also use the module name.

thanks,
-chris
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