Re: Machine Identity

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr>]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:41:41AM -0500,
 der Mouse <mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> wrote 
 a message of 20 lines which said:

> > [...]: there is no standard of identity for machines on the Internet.
> 
> > Such an identity should be unique and provable.
> 
> This is extremely hard to do,

OK, let me rewrite it in a more realistic way.

Such an identity should be almost unique (as is a number choosen at
random in a very large space) and the machine should be able to prove
that it indeed "owns" this identity (as is an ID which is the public
part of a cryptographic key).

For me, SSH keys or HIP Host Identifiers fulfill these requirments.