On Fri, 23 Apr, 1999, John Hasler wrote: > > Perhaps occasional false data with a fake signal would help. > > Test packets (good idea) are an additional way of validating clients, but > not a substitute for duplication. > > It occurs to me that your test packets could require the client to compute > an md5sum on itself and send it in along with its version data. This would > pretty much require that everyone runs a binary issued or registered by > SETI, though. And J. Random Cracker can have a copy of the real binary, when a md5sum is requested, it just sends that the md5sum of that binary rather than itself. -- I consume, therefore I am
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