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From: | Jon Bright |
Subject: | Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: current multiple heads (was Re: write access to my public server) |
Date: | Fri, 30 Apr 2004 08:43:16 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) |
graydon hoare wrote:
the controlled method is very simple: a file called .mt-nonce goes in the working copy which contains some respectably large number (say 4096) of random bits. a new command -- "monotone bump" -- generates a new set
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I won't be implementing this in time for 0.12, but it strikes me as quite feasible within the 0.13 timeframe. does anyone object? it's a kludge, but a simple and obvious one.
Are these cryptographically random bits? If so, using that many random bits does sound like a bit of a recipe for draining the machine's entropy pool (particularly on unattended remote machines that don't have the advantage of keyboard/mouse input).
Would generating a GUID perhaps be easier? It'd certainly be less entropy-hungry. And there's lots of pre-existing stuff about for dealing with GUIDs...
-- Jon Bright Silicon Circus Ltd. http://www.siliconcircus.com
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