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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Repost: Time to revisit the message id generation algorithm?
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:10:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87boph5ywu.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zkd2yvx3.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (Russ Allbery's message of "Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:29:44 -0800")

Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

> One thing that I'd like to request, though, is that if this changes it
> would be nice to have an option to keep the current message ID behavior or
> something like it.

The privacy leak is pretty minor, I think.  And while it's true that
collisions are more likely to occur than if Gnus were using a more
"random" algo, in practice I don't think anybody has ever reported Gnus
generating a duplicate.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no  *  Sent from my Rome



      reply	other threads:[~2012-02-02 10:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-01 18:18 Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson
2012-02-01 23:29 ` Russ Allbery
2012-02-02 10:10   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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