[4045] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: A different take on Intel's RSA announcements
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Curtin)
Fri Jan 22 13:36:23 1999
To: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
Cc: Rob Lemos <Rob_Lemos@zd.com>, cryptography@c2.net
From: Matt Curtin <cmcurtin@interhack.net>
Date: 21 Jan 1999 23:06:34 -0500
In-Reply-To: Tom Weinstein's message of "Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:08:37 -0800"
Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com> writes:
> ID numbers should help detect theft and fraud.
Indeed, we've had "hostid" numbers on our Sun, SGI, and other machines
for some time already. And ethernet addresses are theoretically
unique. Is this any different?
--
Matt Curtin cmcurtin@interhack.net http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/
