[OpenAFS-devel] Re: openafs / opendfs collaboration

[Derek Atkins]

David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> writes:

> Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu> wrote:
>
>> So, my question is...  what do I use as a label?
>
> You could use the session keyring ID. Each key (keyrings are a special type of
> key) has a "unique" ID which is a signed 32-bit number. I say "unique", but
> after all the two billion possible key IDs have been iterated through, the ID
> allocator will begin again from 1, skipping the IDs still in use.

So it's a deterministic and guessable number?  Is that necessarily a
good thing, if I can guess your session keyring ID?

> David

-derek

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