From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/81180 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Repost: Time to revisit the message id generation algorithm? Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:10:09 +0100 Message-ID: <87boph5ywu.fsf@gnus.org> References: <87zkd2yvx3.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328177432 2686 80.91.229.3 (2 Feb 2012 10:10:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:10:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Russ Allbery Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29461@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Feb 02 11:10:30 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rstcb-0000pd-74 for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:10:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RstcZ-0003v9-AY; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:10:27 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RstcY-0003uz-9Y for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:10:26 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RstcW-0008PZ-M0 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:10:26 -0600 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RstcU-0004Ak-87 for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:10:22 +0100 Original-Received: from 93-41-188-50.ip82.fastwebnet.it ([93.41.188.50] helo=rusty) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RstcK-0008Uw-Hf; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:10:12 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87zkd2yvx3.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (Russ Allbery's message of "Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:29:44 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-MailScanner-ID: 1RstcK-0008Uw-Hf MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1328782212.87492@+RkqEXQ3E8PKAGTcdOvFuw X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:81180 Archived-At: Russ Allbery 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