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| author | Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org> | 2018-12-25 19:31:34 +0100 |
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| committer | Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org> | 2018-12-25 19:31:34 +0100 |
| commit | 5280abfa10d04fc294778f85335dcb72498481d7 (patch) | |
| tree | e91aa92ef1f22136829fbaecce262cd295df59e8 /man/mgenmid.1 | |
| parent | 3cc19448774c4028179df34f26c1be258e57e10b (diff) | |
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mgenmid: do not use raw timestamp
We one-time-pad the timestamp with a random key instead. This will provide enough entropy to be unique, but not leak the system date. Even with a bad RNG state it should guarantee uniqueness, however.
Diffstat (limited to 'man/mgenmid.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/mgenmid.1 | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/mgenmid.1 b/man/mgenmid.1 index b63b5db..ad1abc2 100644 --- a/man/mgenmid.1 +++ b/man/mgenmid.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.Dd August 1, 2016 +.Dd December 25, 2018 .Dt MGENMID 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm generates and prints a unique Message-ID. -The Message-ID consists of an encoded timestamp, +The Message-ID consists of an encrypted timestamp, a random value, and a fully qualified domain name. .Pp |