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Re: Encryption plugins for gaim

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Sun Mar 20 23:05:50 2005

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Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 12:02:57 -0500
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: Jim Cheesman <mogrim@arrakis.es>
Cc: Ian G <iang@systemics.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <423746AF.4010802@arrakis.es>

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:33:51PM +0100, Jim Cheesman wrote:
| Ian G wrote:
| 
| >Adam Fields wrote:
| >
| >>Given what may or may not be recent ToS changes to the AIM service,
| >>I've recently been looking into encryption plugins for gaim.
| >>Specifically, I note gaim-otr, authored by Ian G, who's on this list.
| >
| >
| >Just a quick note of clarification, there is a collision
| >in the name Ian G.  4 letters does not a message digest
| >make.
| 
| 
| Perhaps if you were to prepend a random serial number to your name this 
| problem would be alleviated?

They'd both randomly choose pi.



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