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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#58472: [PATCH] Make `message-unique-id' less prone to collisions |
Date: | Mon, 17 Oct 2022 18:38:48 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.3.1 |
On 10/17/22 11:40, Matt Armstrong wrote:
I like it.
Eli doesn't, so I'll drop the idea for now. I didn't realize we were close to releasing 29.1, and I agree with Eli that adding a make-nonce primitive is not something to do close to a release.
With respect to "cryptographic purposes" how about mentioning that `random' itself is potentially seeded from a cryptographically weak source and makes no promise to use a PRNG suitable for cryptography? If I'm right about those two assertions, I think they are important to mention.
Good point. This can be done in the documentation now: this doesn't hurt anything release-relevant, as it's simply documenting what we have. I installed the attached.
0001-Improve-random-doc-re-nonces.patch
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