Genuine Crypto!

[Igor Mozolevsky]

On 18 May 2006, at 19:23, John Brazier wrote:

> If it's ID you are worried about, how about using 160 or 256 bits  
> for a hash
> of the serial number (plus a salt, and perhaps other parameters  
> such as a
> second hash of the memory contents)? You could then use the rest  
> for, say,
> an AES key and a base/modulus for Diffie-Hellman (giving yourself  
> all sorts
> of possibilities!).

And if you want to be really paranoid, you could store two different  
hashes, say sha and md5 of the same serial + salt.


Igor :-D