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From: Paul Schultz
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 00:00

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Hi, we're enhancing the security in our client/server application by
trading digital
certificates back and forth between the PC clients and the UNIX server
host.
We are using these certificates to both authenticate who is making the
connection
and which sets of data they are allowed to download. We have everything
pretty
much automated, including creation and installation of new certificates.
The one
thing we have not been able to figure out how to do is how to verify
which PC
the user is connecting from. We tried enumerating through the system
properties,
hoping to see a serial number, a MAC address, or anything elst that
would uniquely
identify which PC was being used without having to manually install
"host ID"
certificates on a PC-by-PC basis. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
Paul Schultz
Chicago Public Schools
773-553-1326
pschultz@csc.cps.k12.il.us
pasfam@ix.netcom.com

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