4 Oct
2012
4 Oct
'12
2:19 p.m.
Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
Once host identifiers are no longer dependent on or related to topology, there's no reason a reasonable fixed-length cannot suffice.
Host identities should be cryptographic hashes of public keys, so you have to support algorithm agility, which probably implies variable length. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <dot@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ Forties, Cromarty: East, veering southeast, 4 or 5, occasionally 6 at first. Rough, becoming slight or moderate. Showers, rain at first. Moderate or good, occasionally poor at first.