BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

[Antony Mawer]

On 9/08/2006 9:16 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> Can you tell me exactly what you do with those two pieces of data?  Is 
>> there any way that information would be accessible from the internet?
> 
> Absolutely nothing else we do with it ... it just gives us a unique key 
> to work with ... in fact, assuming each of your servers use a different 
> IP, there is no reason you couldn't do the uname trick above to hide the 
> hostname ...
> 
> Unless someone breaks into the server, or database, somehow, the data 
> isn't accessible ...

What if we improved upon this - if instead of storing the hostname and 
IP address, we stored a one-way hash of this information? OpenSSH in 
recent versions takes the same approach with its authorized_keys files...

-Antony