From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: cancel locks
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 22:10:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87g07yxkn0.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iluzo66pfr1.fsf@dhcp128.extundo.com> (Simon Josefsson's message of "Thu, 01 Nov 2001 18:23:14 +0100")
Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
> The initial password is generated with the following, better ideas
> welcome.
>
> (defun message-canlock-generate ()
> "Return a string that is non-trival to guess.
> Do not use this for anything important, it is cryptographically weak."
> (md5 (concat (message-unique-id)
> (format "%x%x%x" (random) (random t) (random))
> (prin1-to-string (recent-keys))
> (prin1-to-string (garbage-collect)))))
You could hash in the buffer list, too.
It should be documented somewhere that sharing your .emacs file might
expose the canlock "password".
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-01 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-31 17:45 Simon Josefsson
2001-10-31 18:11 ` Bjørn Mork
2001-10-31 19:06 ` Simon Josefsson
2001-11-01 0:13 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-11-01 11:28 ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-01 8:23 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-11-01 11:34 ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-01 11:59 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-11-01 16:34 ` Matt Armstrong
2001-11-01 17:21 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-11-01 17:41 ` Jesper Harder
2001-11-01 17:23 ` Simon Josefsson
2001-11-01 18:47 ` Matt Armstrong
2001-11-01 21:09 ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-01 21:10 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
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