uniquely identifying a machine...

[Erik Max Francis]

Christopher Swingley wrote:

> I'm not sure how consistent bogomips and other CPU measures are, nor
> am
> I sure if the hardware order is fixed between reboots (both of which
> would alter the md5sum).

They're not.  You'd definitely have to do some processing of this before
you passed it to the MD5 hasher.

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