On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, David Wheeler wrote: > To eliminate the need for a central registry of ids, > the recommended convention for creating the hexadecimal id value is: > 'echo "Name_of_module" | md5sum | cut -c -8'. > C code will need to prefix this result with "0x". > For example, echo "SGI Trusted Linux" | md5sum | cut -c -8 > would be used in C as #define SYS_SECURITY_MODID 0xc4c7be22. Not to be nit-picky, but your original posting on this topic (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-security-module&m=99842987214848&w=2) suggested using 'echo -n' to omit the newline from the input. That is what we used for the "selinux" module identifier. Not a big deal, obviously. -- Stephen D. Smalley, NAI Labs ssmalleyat_private _______________________________________________ linux-security-module mailing list linux-security-moduleat_private http://mail.wirex.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-security-module
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