On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

> 
> BTW, there are also some privacy implications of ident which I really
> don't like...  Consider that ad.doubleclick.net could use ident
> queries to identify the origin of requests which came in without
> cookies..
> 
Well, if you're worried about that, you can do what we do where I work. We
have an identd that returns an encrypted token like:

 Jul 23 22:40:39 nyx rlogind[2014]: connect from qlKFsNzmDggeQ@ss1.x.digex.net

This is generally useless to the types of peopel you just described, but can
mean everything to me once i send that string back through some stuff
here and get the UID that this is associated with.

rob

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