From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Cc: 58472@debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: bug#58472: [PATCH] Make `message-unique-id' less prone to collisions
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 13:45:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tu486j66.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkm==rTzyWr7Jxek3w79dS+HcKPB7bQjkcjX7_fVBaDbBDA@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Wed, 12 Oct 2022 09:07:53 -0700")
Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
> For the first 1-2 characters, it uses the return value `user-uid', which
> on most single-user systems is a fixed value (for example, this gives us
> "87" on almost any single-user Debian machine).[1] It's also
> unnecessarily leaky of potentially privacy sensitive information.
Well, since it is "87" on most machines, it's not very leaky. 😀
It's documented to be this way, though? That is, we've got tricks like
being able to score on References based on your Message-ID to score up
threads you've been a part of, etc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-13 11:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-12 16:07 bug#58472: [PATCH] Make `message-unique-id' less prone to collisions Stefan Kangas
2022-10-12 18:08 ` Paul Eggert
2022-10-13 2:46 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-13 4:53 ` Matt Armstrong
2022-10-13 12:10 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-13 16:35 ` Matt Armstrong
2022-10-13 16:38 ` Paul Eggert
2022-10-14 9:22 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-13 16:21 ` Paul Eggert
2022-10-14 9:22 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-16 7:32 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-16 17:05 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-16 15:19 ` Matt Armstrong
2022-10-16 16:49 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-17 6:17 ` Matt Armstrong
2022-10-17 7:30 ` Paul Eggert
2022-10-17 8:14 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-17 8:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-17 18:47 ` Matt Armstrong
2022-10-17 8:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-17 8:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-17 8:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-17 9:30 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-17 11:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-17 15:40 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-11-25 1:26 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-17 18:40 ` Matt Armstrong
2022-10-18 1:38 ` Paul Eggert
2022-10-18 14:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-13 11:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-10-13 12:10 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-13 19:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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