Ed Carp <ecarp@netcom.com> 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.