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Re: REMAIL: pseudo-account remailer @andrew gains anonymous feature



Ed Carp <[email protected]> wrote:

> How about generating a secure hash and using that as an index
> into a table?  If there's an address already there, use that -
> otherwise, generate one.
> 
> Generate the hash from the incoming address, of course.  That way,
> you  don't need to keep track of anon-id-to-real-id mappings, yet
> guarantee that each user has one and only one anon address. Of
> course, folks coming in from different hosts will have different
> anon ID's.
> 
> Or have I missed some blindingly obvious technical point thaqt
> would make this impossible?

I don't see how this would prevent me from having to keep track of
anon-id-to-real-id mappings.  It could work for sending mail, but I'd
still have to have some way of keeping track of the real ids for the
replies.