Re: cancel locks

["Matt Armstrong" <matt+dated+1007224448.7bca4c@lickey.com>]

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
>
>> I'm sorry, but it's rather straightforward to guess a password
>> generated by 'message-unique-id'.
>
> Yes, but you need to read and understand the code in message to do
> so, and you need google to track down the users first message to get
> the necessary information (from the data and message-id headers).
> That is a lot more work than faking a cancel of an unlocked message.
>
> If someone later wants to contribute a better password generator, it
> can be installed with no problem.

Here is my contribution:

(defun gnus-random-cancel-lock-password ()
  (random t)
  (format "%x%x" (random) (random)))

:-)
  
-- 
matt