220,18 → 220,18 |
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<a id="systemid"></a><h2>Unique system ID</h2> |
<p>During the initial setup, a public/private-key-pair will be created which can be used for various purposes, e.g. to encrypt data between OIDplus and ViaThinkSoft if the "system registration" service is used (see below) or to sign OID-WHOIS responses.</p> |
<p>During the initial setup, a public/private-key-pair will be created which can be used for various purposes, e.g. to encrypt data between OIDplus and ViaThinkSoft if the "system registration" service is used (see below) or to sign OID-IP (previously OID-WHOIS) responses.</p> |
<p>From this public key, a unique system ID will be derivated. The unique system ID and the public key can be seen on the setup screen.</p> |
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<a id="system_registration"></a><h2>System registration and automatic publishing to oid-info.com</h2> |
<p>During initial setup, the system administrator can choose between the following options:</p> |
<p>0 Register to directory service and automatically publish RA/OID data at oid-info.com<br>1 Only register to directory service<br>2 Hide system</p> |
<p>0 = Register to directory service and automatically publish RA/OID data at oid-info.com<br>1 = Only register to directory service<br>2 = Hide system</p> |
<p>This setting can always be changed in the administrator login/control panel.</p> |
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<h3>Registering the system to the directory service (options 0 and 1)</h3> |
<p>The registration of the OIDplus system has various advantages:</p><!-- please keep in sync with plugins/viathinksoft/adminPages/120_registration/info.html document --> |
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<li>The public key of the OIDplus instance will be published to the ViaThinkSoft web directory so that users can check the integrity of the data (e.g. signed OID-WHOIS requests).</li> |
<li>The public key of the OIDplus instance will be published to the ViaThinkSoft web directory so that users can check the integrity of the data (e.g. signed OID-IP/OID-WHOIS requests).</li> |
<li>Since the 31-bit System ID can have hash conflicts, ViaThinkSoft will make sure that the System ID is only used by this OIDplus instance (it will force other OIDplus systems with the same system ID to change their IDs).</li> |
<li>ViaThinkSoft can acknowledge the system name, administrator email address, and OID root arcs. Therefore, the OIDplus instance can be found using Referral WHOIS.</li> |
<li>The administrator can optionally enable the automatic publishing of the public OID information to the repository oid-info.com.</li> |