[Olsr-dev] UUID plugin

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jun 5, 2012, at 3:32 AM, Bastian Bittorf wrote:

>>> So I was thinking there could be a plugin that generates a UUID
>>> (universally unique ID, basically a giant random number) and
>> saves it
>>> to a file.  If that is loaded, things like jsoninfo would then
>> output
>>> the UUID info.
> 
> sven-ola suggested some years ago 8-) to simply
> take the public fingerprint of an installed ssh-server, which
> every box should have and which does never change, e.g.
> 
> dropbearkey -y -f "$keyfile.priv"

A nice idea for machines that are guaranteed to have some kind of ssh, but Android phones rarely have ssh at all.

.hc