From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Simon Fowler Subject: Re: Merge with git-pasky II. Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 01:55:37 +1000 Message-ID: <20050416155536.GX4488@himi.org> References: <7vvf6pr4oq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20050414121624.GZ25711@pasky.ji.cz> <7vll7lqlbg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7v7jj5qgdz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <1113559330.12012.292.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> <20050416014442.GW4488@himi.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="41bjdpi19TcwJlr2" Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Apr 16 17:52:10 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DMpab-0006lm-70 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 17:52:09 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262691AbVDPPzt (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Apr 2005 11:55:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262692AbVDPPzt (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Apr 2005 11:55:49 -0400 Received: from dreamcraft.goldweb.com.au ([202.55.152.19]:15246 "EHLO dreamcraft.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262691AbVDPPzo (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Apr 2005 11:55:44 -0400 Received: from private.himi.org (dsl-203-113-232-142.ACT.netspace.net.au [203.113.232.142]) by dreamcraft.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 816FA5B986; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 01:55:49 +1000 (EST) Received: by private.himi.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C7569B6E1; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 01:55:37 +1000 (EST) To: David Lang Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org --41bjdpi19TcwJlr2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 05:19:24AM -0700, David Lang wrote: > Simon >=20 > given that you have multiple machines creating files, how do you deal wit= h=20 > the idea of the same 'unique id' being assigned to different files by=20 > different machines? >=20 The id is a sha1 hash of the current time and the full path of the file being added - the chances of that being replicated without malicious intent is extremely small. There are other things that could be used, like the hostname, username of the person running the program, etc, but I don't really see them being necessary. Simon --=20 PGP public key Id 0x144A991C, or http://himi.org/stuff/himi.asc (crappy) Homepage: http://himi.org doe #237 (see http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS)=20 My DeCSS mirror: ftp://himi.org/pub/mirrors/css/=20 --41bjdpi19TcwJlr2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCYTV4QPlfmRRKmRwRAmsBAJ9ZNSjQeNRmiF1R1ubc+D9648ndeQCgmuxL e3wQL5Lv4sf+ZGks08CHsX8= =kbht -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --41bjdpi19TcwJlr2--