Firewall question

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 15 May 2008 19:05, max bianco wrote:
> I think, assuming i have followed things correctly to this point, a
> big if I know, that she was looking for someway to establish the
> computer's identity through its hardware configuration, a hardware
> fingerprint if you will, this would be possible I think but you would
> have to have some kind of computed hash, based on the hardware setup
> and something random(in case someone somewhere has a computer setup
> identical to yours and also happens to stumble across your network)
> that would uniquely identify your computer, maybe calculated based on
> the individual serial numbers of your hardware components, assuming
> they are unique of course. I asked something similar once but all i
> got were quizzical looks for my effort, as well as suggestions like
> "isn't that what cookies are for?" to which the answer is of course
> no. Cookies store settings, site info, and such but this would be like
> a fingerprint for your computer or a retinal pattern or a dna sample.

Hardware fingerprint - yes, that describes my idea exactly. :-)

Anne