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What could the purpose of an encrypted error be? If it's a server side error it's already in their logs.
by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
What could the purpose of an encrypted error be? If it's a server side error it's already in their logs.
- Klathmon 10y agoI've used something like this before so it's easy to lookup the exact error that they saw. Generally i just do something like an sha of the error and time, and spit out like the first 10 bytes or something (as well as put that in the log line), i'm just looking for something i can grep for.
- sowbug 10y agoThink of it as a zero-capability web cookie. Burden of storage is on the client, so it scales nicely. If it's symmetric-encrypted, then it's unforgeable, and it's safe to include private information, like IP address or recent video-viewing history, just in case someone posts a screenshot of it on HN.
- AlexCoventry 10y agoI could see it being useful as an affordance for internal testers. It would be useful when things break so hard you don't even get a log.