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Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?
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Ken Raeburn |
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Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function? |
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Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:11:10 -0400 |
On Apr 25, 2011, at 04:45, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>> Though, at least one version I ran across generates (by default?)
>> the information-revealing "version 1" format that encodes the
>> machine's MAC address, and while some versions have options to
>> control which form is generated, not all do.
>
> Application where you'd care, please.
I don't know; I'm not familiar with many uses of UUIDs, either. I'd expect
some messaging protocols might be able to use such a thing, but an argument has
been made against email/news message-ids using them. Just pointing it out, in
case anyone is assuming uuidgen will always give something suitable for
exposing to the net at large associated with one's identity.
> If any of the data for the
> applications mentioned by Leo leaked enough that somebody got hold of
> one of the UUIDs, I'd be worried about everything *except* my MAC
> address.
Are calendar or org files not suitable for being made public? (That's a
serious question; I don't use either one.) Should they include information
that helps track what computers I use?
Ken
- Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Leo, 2011/04/15
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Chong Yidong, 2011/04/24
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Leo, 2011/04/24
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/04/25
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Ken Raeburn, 2011/04/25
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/04/25
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/04/25
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/04/25
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/04/25
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?,
Ken Raeburn <=
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/04/28
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Ken Raeburn, 2011/04/30
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/04/30
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Ken Raeburn, 2011/04/30
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Richard Stallman, 2011/04/30
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/04/30
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Chong Yidong, 2011/04/25
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Ken Raeburn, 2011/04/28