[Mailman-Developers] Fwd: Bounce action notification

Chuq Von Rospach chuqui at plaidworks.com
Thu Feb 27 07:23:15 EST 2003


On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 02:33  AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

> The hash idea sounds interesting, but how do you manage to convert
> the hash back to an email address ?

you don't. Since I use a one-way hash (for various security reasons), 
you store the hash in the record with the email address, and then 
compare hashes. same general concept as an encrypted password.

One reason you do that is so that people can't script your CGIs to 
extract your subscription list programmatically, since the hash gives 
them no hook to hack your cgis with.

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